Place where the tabernacle stood outside of the city of Shiloh, during the time of Judges and Saul.
Psalm 15
English Standard Version, David Cochran Audio
O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent?
Who shall dwell on your holy hill?
2 He who walks blamelessly and does what is right
and speaks truth in his heart;
3 who does not slander with his tongue
and does no evil to his neighbor,
nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
4 in whose eyes a vile person is despised,
but who honors those who fear the Lord;
who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
5 who does not put out his money at interest
and does not take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things shall never be moved.
Why a tent of the Lord? The Lord was very fond of His tent. And could we not long for the embrace and comfort, the cosiness of a Living God loving us for exactly who we are.
Tent ~ It's another one of the living and active Word of God explanations. Yes, this is a Psalm of David, and the Lord told David not to build him a Temple. So we have a reason for the literal subject of a tent....
1 Chronicles 28:3
But God said to me, 'You are not to build a house for my Name, because you are a warrior and have shed blood.'
Solomon acknowledged the futile gesture of building the LORD a Temple:
1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
2 Corinthians 5:1-4
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, 3 if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. 4 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
Our tent, obviously, reminds us our life here is short. David wasn't clean, pure, enough to build the Temple. Yet, David was God's anointed. Solomon was so promising and Ecclesiastes tells us Solomon felt he had partially fallen short in his lifespan knowledge and actions; history records the kingdom wasn't secure when it went to David's grandson.
We never can acquire God's grace by earning it. Not ever. Even the apostle Paul knew he was saved in the goodness of Jesus Christ.
Romans 7
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
We walk in the grace of Jesus. Doing our best each day to uphold Jesus in our words. Comforted even the disciples of Jesus didn't get it right all the time during His life and afterwards they sometimes were quarrelsome and confused.
2 Corinthians 5:5-10
5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
6 So we are always of good courage!
We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Father God, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart ♥ be pleasing in Your sight this day, and always, in the forgiveness of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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