The Four Corners of the Tabernacle

UV 1500/10000 The Four Corners of the Tabernacle
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

Psalm 27 v 5

The Lord who is the ultimate leader says, “My tabernacle will be with you. I shall be your God and you shall be my people.” Leadership without the aid and vision that the Lord provides is blind leadership. The leaders of the world hide behind the ranks and lead from behind and make sacrifices without number of their followers. But the Lord hides us in the time of trouble in His pavilion, the four corners of His presence, within the invisible walls of the tabernacle. We are hidden between the four corners of His mercy, grace, peace and love. The Lord will surround us with songs of deliverance. He gives us physical deliverance which we acknowledge with the song of Moses against formidable powers of the earth, against foes who are much stronger than us. He gives us spiritual deliverance from the enemy of our souls and his agents. We acknowledge spiritual deliverance with the song of the Lamb or the song of Jesus. Though there is a song of Moses recorded in the Bible, there is no song of Jesus. It implies that our praises that emanate from our hearts inspired by the Holy Spirit is the song of the Lamb.

The physical manifestation of the tabernacle of the Lord moved with the Israelites in their journey to the promised land. The spiritual tabernacle of the Lord moves with us in our journey to the land of the eternally living- heaven. We should always ensure that we are dwelling, moving , working and relating or reacting to people and situations of life within the four corners of mercy, grace, peace and love. The four corners that hold up the glory of the canopy of God should move along with us. The secret of the tabernacle is that it should always move with us and we should always move within the four corners of the tabernacle. We can hide always in the shadow or presence of the Almighty. The Lord is our secret source of strength and rejoicing.

As we live and move and exist within the tabernacle, as we trust in His Name, as we hope in His Word and are faithful, diligent and obedient to His commands, the Lord will establish us on the rock . He is like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. In other words, this world and the life in it is like a hot and torrid desert. But the Lord’s presence upon us is like the rock that provides a shade during the hot day time, a hiding place from the cold of night, a covert during rain and storms and a refuge. As we are covered within the four corners of the presence of the Lord, we will be blessed, secured and His will and promises fulfilled in our lives. I recently saw a movie called “Castaway” in which a survivor of a plane crash, an employee of Fedex who had a fetish for excessive punctuality, lives alone and marooned on an uninhabited island. On the island he lost his sense of time and lived somehow from day to day. On the 1500th day, he escapes from the island on a makeshift sail boat. Today, I have incidentally completed 1500 days of meditation on the uni-verse or a single verse of scripture. It has been shared with thousands of people across the globe to encourage them to walk in the ways of the Lord. I can testify that a verse a day not just keeps the doctor away but enables us to live securely within the four corners of the tabernacle and to be blessed and established in the ways of the Lord.

Prateep V Philip