You mean He likes me?

screechismyhero · 06-26-2003, 11:45 PM

Tables. We all have them and use them. They're great. When I think of tables, I think of how my family sits down and eats dinner together every night, how I played board games with my sister on rainy Saturday afternoons, and how I ate lunch with my friends at school. So, in a way, tables represent fellowship to me.

In the old testament, more particularly, in Exodus 25:23-30 God gave Moses instructions to make a very important table, a table that would be a picture of His love for us. The table I'm referring to is the "Table of Showbread". Fasten your seatbelts because I'm going to show you how a seemingly dull portion of scripture is actually a vivid depection of God's great love for YOU.

The priests would lay 12 breads, similar to pitas, on the table. These 12 "pitas" represented the 12 tribes of Israel. In v.30, God said that he wanted the bread, the tribes, to always be before Him ontop of the table in plain view. What this means to you is that we (you, me, and everyone) are always in God's sight. He knows everything about us; every word we speak, every thought we think, He knows it. Like the showbread, we are always laid out before God.

Around the "Table of Showbread" there was a rim to keep the bread from falling out. In the King James version, the measurement of this rim is a HANDBREADTH. (It is definitely not just a coincidence that "handbreadth" was the chosen measurement.) What this means to you is that God is in control. You, like the showbread, can't fall out of His hand. You are protected. You're not going to slip away unnoticed. Just picture God scooping you up in His hands. John 10:27-28 says, "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Pretty cool, aye?

The purpose of tables: eating, talking, playing games, etc, have, pretty much, stayed the same throughout time. When we eat at someone's table, what does it mean? It means that they're worth our time, and that we like them enough to want to spend time with them.
Revelation 3:20 says "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me." What this verse says to me is that Jesus likes me. He likes me enough to want to spend time with me, even though I'm not like Him (I'm still just a sinner).

What does it mean when you like someone? You like all the quirky things that make that person who they are, right??!! God is telling you, "You are fearfully and wonderfully made. I knit you together in your mother's womb. Before I made you I knew you" He loves the crazy things you do that make you who you are because He made you that way. He loves that you can burp the alphabet, and that one of your ears sticks out kinda funny, and that you can play a kazoo with your nose, and that you pretend to be a rockstar infront of you bedroom mirror (oops, i gave myself away on the last one

).

So, next time you sit down at a table, remember that God is in control, He sees all and knows all, and that He's never going to let anyone steal you from His hands. Oh yeah, and he really, really likes you.

Drill · 06-27-2003, 12:42 PM

that was good I like that God likes me. It makes me wanna like Him!!!

Luke · 06-27-2003, 05:10 PM

I don't see any Biblical justification for the idea of putting all this superspiritual representation on the measurement of a "handbreadth".

Grace & Peace
Luke

screechismyhero · 06-27-2003, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Luke

I don't see any Biblical justification for the idea of putting all this superspiritual representation on the measurement of a "handbreadth".

Maybe not, but God really spoke to me through it. you can't negate the fact that it's pretty cool that "handbreadth" was the chosen measurement, besides the point that I believe that EVERY word of the Bible is God-breathed and equally important. It's just my opinion. It wasn't my intention to create a ruckus or a debate. Sorry if I steppec on your toes.

**Becky** · 09-14-2003, 11:33 AM

Luke, it also doesn't hurt to look at it that way

Because we KNOW that it's true, even if this wasn't ment to represent that.

screemchismyhero, you have some good stuff there

Though, I might make a suggestion (being writer and all

) you have two devotionals there

The second half really has nothing to do with the first

So, if you want to use this else where.. don't go off on a tangent..

Either consentrait on the table representing fellowship, or concentrate on us not falling out of God's hands and always being in His site

any chance you could provide more scriptural suport and more thoughts regarding this:

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What this means to you is that we (you, me, and everyone) are always in God's sight. He knows everything about us; every word we speak, every thought we think, He knows it. Like the showbread, we are always laid out before God.

Bryan · 09-14-2003, 11:57 AM

screechismyhero, that was really good. it definitely came at the right time.