Exodus 30

What is holy to God shall be holy to us.

And you shall say to the people of Israel, "This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations. It shall not be poured on the body of an ordinary person, and you shall make no other like it in composition. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you. Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people."

Exodus 30:31-33

God created the heavens and the earth, and everything that He created has a purpose. There are things He created to be done at certain times, used in certain areas, and created for certain things, and we should treat what is holy to God as holy to us. In these verses, God told Moses about the anointing oil, gave specific instructions on how it should be made and used, and then closed with a warning. What He created as a holy anointing oil should not be poured on the ordinary, and if it is, that person shall be cut off from his people.

The consequences for not treating what is holy to God as holy are great. The thing that comes to mind here is going to church. Going to church every week is a holy time spent in the presence of God and of the Holy Spirit, but we can make it an ordinary thing, just a Sunday morning at church. God did not design church to be ordinary. He designed it to be holy, and we must treat it with the reverent devotion that something holy deserves. There are many other examples like this, such as prayer, Bible study, or any time we spend with God. Even marriage and government should be looked at through the lens of how God wanted it, because He created these things, and so we must seek to understand how He wants them to be.

The consequence of treating what is holy as ordinary is that we will be cut off from His people. Not because of what God is doing, but because of what we are doing. We are not allowing ourselves to be connected in the way that we are meant to be connected with His holy presence through Jesus Christ. If we treat that as something ordinary, we are removing ourselves from the blessing of coming into His presence. We are not actually coming into His presence if we are treating it as ordinary.

The study today reminds me of God's power, and it also reminds me that His presence is here and that He has purpose in His design. I seek to gain wisdom to learn how to live in God's world God's way, so that I may come to Him with a sense of devotion to His holiness rather than treating it as ordinary, because I want to be God's people.