My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

While reading about the law that was given Moses while up in the mount, this verse reminded of something I just read regarding that: (Exodus 25:21,22) And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat… The ark was the focal point of the entire tabernacle, and also the temple when it was built. (It still is) It contained the two tables of stone which the law was written. It’s as if everything else revolved around that. It was the most sacred of all the instruments and furniture. It was in the holiest place. If anybody touched it, they died.

The bible declares that (1 Corinthians 3:16) Ye are the temple of God. And in this temple is also an ark; the heart. And in this heart, God says to keep my commandments. And then in Proverbs 3:3 he speaks of the table of thine heart; not for eating, but for writing. I believe that God is very serious about this. He protects and cares for the temple of the Holy Ghost just as he did the tabernacle and things of it in the days of Moses. (1 Corinthians 3:17) If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

No wonder Peter said we are (1 Peter 2:5) an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ; (1 Peter 2:9) a royal priesthood. As baptist, we say that we believe the priesthood of every believer. I must admit, I never thought of myself as the temple of God beyond that of the dwelling place of the Holy Ghost. I’ve always thought the tabernacle (from Exodus) was a pattern of what is in heaven, and surely it is. But I never thought that what God had wrought inside of me is patterned after what is in heaven. And it is among these elements that he chooses to commune with me. He said let thine heart keep my commandments.

And that our service to God starts on the inside; amongst the things of the heavenly, yet bodily, sanctuary. What’s going on in the inside? Are the commandments where they belong? They belonged in the ark under the mercy seat of which God said there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee. Paul said (2 Corinthians 13:14) The communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. I wonder if this is so, how can we commune with God without the commandment being in it’s proper place?

I believe the Psalmist had it in it’s proper place.

Communion and Commandment. My most precious times with God have always been by the Word of God. My most intimate understandings of God have always come by the Word of God.