This morning I was reflecting on how good God is and how He in the very beginning of mankind established a specific place where He would meet with His people.  Each day we are continually setting times to meet people throughout our week.  Just wondering have you set a time and place to meet with Jesus which is the only meeting that really matters. 

In the Bible we find that God’s meeting place is much more a spiritual place than a physical one. 

Exodus 29:42  “For the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the entrance to the Tent of meeting before the Lord.  There I will meet you and speak to you; there also I will meet with the Israelites, and the place will be consecrated by My glory.”

God was giving instruction concerning the specific offerings that were to take place daily on the altar of burnt offering.  But we see a very clear principle.  God is speaking to His people about the specific place of His visitation, the place of Him speaking to us and meeting with us.  It’s really clear -  the place of His visitation is the place of sacrificial offerings. 

Later God says to “take from among you an offering to the Lord.  whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as an offering to the Lord…”  Exodus 35:5

Really, God could have just performed a miracle and been done.  But He wanted His people to willingly bring what was needed.  He wanted them to experience His visitation, as they gave sacrificially to the work of the Lord.  The same principle applies to us today.  As we give sacrificially and willingly to the building of His work right here and right now, we too will experience the glory of HIS visitation!