Whenever Moses went into the Tabernacle to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—that rests on the Ark of the Covenant. The LORD spoke to him from there. [Numbers 7.89]
If the Tabernacle represents our body (as Jesus indicated it did), then what does the Ark of the Covenant represent?
I can only imagine the Ark represents the heart of man. The Ark is the heart of the Tabernacle. It is there God desires to reside and fellowship with man. It is there that is the most holy place - the most sacred place. It is there God and man commune.
When Jesus spoke of the heart, He seemed to implicate that it was the center of spiritual activity in the life of a man:
A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. [Matthew 12.35]
We must understand that "spiritual activity" does not necessarily mean good activity! The spiritual center of man must be safeguarded for its content! The heart has the capacity to produce either good or bad.
This is where we see the necessity of our lives being in Christ. Otherwise, we are left to our own means and hearts and therefore, can only produce what a human heart is capable of producing: evil. Jeremiah 17.9 says: The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?
Only Jesus can change our hearts. It is a daily task for us to allow Him to do so. It begins at the point we first trust in Him, but it takes a lifetime to continue the process. Every day is an opportunity to give Him more control - to give Him more of our hearts - to allow Him to live through us - to allow our lives to be lost (and therefore found) in His!
Father, my heart is Yours. Please help me today to live that out with my actions so that the world will see Jesus and not me.
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