2 Chronicles 5:7-10 (NIVUK)
7 The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim. 8 The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles. 9 These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today. 10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.
What does it mean that the Ark was placed at the heart of the Temple, containing the Ten Commandments chiselled onto their two tablets of stone? Did it mean that God demanded that they obey him and that his rules were the heart of their faith? I don’t think so. How do the Ten Commandments start? With a reminder that God is a God who responds to his people’s cry and saves them, ‘2 ‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3 ‘You shall have no other gods before me.’ (Exodus 20:2-3 NIVUK)
Thank you Father that you are a compassionate God who acts to save us.
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