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Inner And Outer Part Of Our Lives
3/31/2017

Daily Devotions: by Christina Farris

Ezekiel 42:1-20 KJV
(1) Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
(2) Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
(3) Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
(4) And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
(5) Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
(6) For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
(7) And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
(8) For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
(9) And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
(10) The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.
(11) And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
(12) And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
(13) Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
(14) When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.
(15) Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.
(16) He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
(17) He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
(18) He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
(19) He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
(20) He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

The part of our lives no one shares with us is the secret compartments of our heart. The inner part not seen by man even in situations where we like to really say or do what we think or feel and yet continue to act as proper society people. The feeling of want to really tell someone off but does not. That inward emotions of tears when there is only a smile on the face. The inward part that smiling though the tears fall for camaraderie with others that mourn. The out part of us that hide our true nature, though it looks good outwardly inwardly the heart sees the reflection of a well groomed and oil machinery of a robotic action taught from years of training.

The inward part of the temple is the place of the Holies of Holies. The place that was protected from the sins of the world. Purity of priest that would inter would be on ceremony cleansing and purification of even food brought to the Holies of Holies. The secret apartment of where God lived. The bridal chamber of where the priest minister to God and commune with God. The inward place Zecharias enter to only have the Angel Gabriel tell of his wife pregnancy to come, despite old age. The secret chamber of God’s house the whispers only the secrets of God to the one being sent forth to share the word of God with outward chambers.

The heart of man is suppose to be where ideas are discussed with God and displayed outwardly the message God desires for us to display to the world. If one has ask Jesus to be Lord and Savior of the heart, then God speaks from the throne of the heart though he not always in charge. He speaks what should be to us, in private whispers of truth of His word. The words of God that keeps even our emotion on the outside in check.

Ezekiel seen the details of the sanctuary transported to the temple that was no longer there. Yet the temple of our hearts is what really matter. The temple that houses Jesus and His Word. Has the believer allowed the reflection of God’s discussion to our human heart display outwardly, or is one’s heart only a reflection of our humanity, and not whose child we are.

Dear Heavenly Father, cleanse our heart, and may Christ come in to teach us how to let His light shine into the outer chambers and through the gates of our lives. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study for Devotion:Revelation 11:1-3 KJV
(1) And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
(2) But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
(3) And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

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