I’m not much for camping out. I prefer my lumpy mattress to the hard ground. I feel much more at east in my climate controlled bedroom than a nylon tent. My idea of “roughing it” is a hotel with no wireless internet connection.
That being said, tents played an important role in Old Testament times. One of my favorite cases in found in Exodus 33:7-11. As Moses led the Hebrews through the Wilderness, they set up camp for a short time at various locations. When they would set up camp, Moses would set up a tent far off from the camp that they called the “tent of meeting.”
Anyone who wanted to pray could get alone and meet with God. The Bible tells them that when Moses went into the tent, the cloud representing God’s presence would engulf the tent. When the people saw the presence of God come upon Moses and the tent, they would “rise up and worship, each at his tent door.”
Pitching Your Own Tent
I think it’s past time for you and me to have something like a tent of meeting in our lives. We need a place to get alone with God and let Him speak to us.
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