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By Mike Caton

Exodus 33:7, “Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the ‘tent of meeting.’ Anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp.”

This tent of meeting was built before the tabernacle. Back in chapter 25 we started talking about the tabernacle. The people started bringing their offerings for it, and God gave Moses the detailed instructions about the tent itself as well as the furnishings that went inside and the clothes Aaron and his sons were to wear when ministering there. But the tabernacle has not been built yet. This was an earlier tent of meeting, no doubt smaller and much more plain.

It was separate from the main camp, maybe that shows the people, and by extension us, need to have times when we get away from the crowd to be with the Lord. This world is so distracting, there are so many things that want our attention; some of them are good and some not so much. But regardless, when we come to the Lord, we need to be able to shut those things out and focus completely on him. We need to have a time and a place to get away. I know, as well as anybody, how hard this is. But we need to set some limits, and we need to train and condition ourselves to shut out the world for a time in order to simply be with God.

Father, help me find my own tent of meeting. In Jesus’ name, amen. 

Mike Caton is the preacher at Mount Olive Church of Christ in Belhaven. He volunteers at the Ponzer Fire Department and works as a full time AEMT with Hyde County EMS. Follow Mount Olive Church of Christ on Facebook for daily devotions.

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