A Touch of Elegance

A touch of elegance is needed in life. We can surround ourselves with beauty and order – this is good. But we need a touch of elegance from above.

In the wilderness, a most unattractive place…a place where want was all around…God erected a sanctuary so He could dwell with His people. No matter where we are, He is willing to come down and be with us.

In the desolate place, God gave instructions for a tabernacle that was beautiful in fabrics and furnishings and purpose and meaning. The work of that place was not physically attractive, however. It was full of death and blood. We so often want the elegance without the work.

The ugly part was a visual aid of life on this earth—our situation. The beauty of Heaven came down to sin and death…all this, to usher us to a better place—the throne room.

One lesson from the tabernacle—a place of hope—is the promise in the process. The tabernacle experience was God’s people practicing the promise. It was the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen. Jesus did the hard work, the ugly work to usher me into the throne room—a place of elegance.

We need a touch of elegance daily. The worship experience fills this need. The tabernacle service is a visual aid for a worship experience that allows the fullness of the Godhead to work out its pleasure in our lives…this is not something we really understand. This is not something we work up or get from God. It is something God works out or does in us. It can happen because I’m in the presence of God listening to His word that will become flesh in my life.

A touch of elegance is needed in life. I must pursue this elegance even when I’m in the desert of life surrounded by want and need. I must pursue this elegance even when I think that I’ll never find way way out of the desert. I must pursue this elegance when all that I see in myself is sin and the need for the blood of Jesus.

The work of Heaven is a science that will be forever studied. The power of beholding, the life in the blood, the inside out change…these are energetic sciences that are just now being studied with slight understanding. 

A touch of elegance is needed in life, and it is found in the most unlikely places….you and me. Now, we are tabernacles for the indwelling of Heaven. This indwelling creates an elegant life that witnesses to the power and glory of God…elegance imparted, elegance received, elegance shared.

Thank you, Father God!