The sanctuary shows the way of eternity.

The sanctuary shows the way of eternity.

Psa 77:13  Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? 

God's way is where?

In the sanctuary.

Is it any wonder then that the way of understanding the end of man is found in the sanctuary?

Psa 37:37  Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. 

Psa 37:38  But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. 

This goes hand in hand with this verse-

Psa 73:17  Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. 

The sanctuary - God's way.

The sanctuary - everything about the sanctuary reveals God desiring to protect man and give man an existence in eternity along with Him- completely unoppressed, completely loved and able to love. 

Right now we long for a life that we cannot possess fully. All of us live with longing. The longing is manifested in many ways but all of us hope, or hoped for it just in the fact we live our lives with many undertones of dissatisfaction. We recognize that no matter what - whether we possess millions of dollars or no money at all, we are never fully satisfied. Problems exist for the richest and the poorest people- different problems, but problems nonetheless. While the poor long for money to solve their problems, the rich long for their money to buy happiness which often falls far short of expectations, and there is no real satisfaction to be found. We want something we don't possess and Satan would have us believe it exists in the temporal world when in truth it only exists in the eternal with Christ Jesus, with God the Father, and with the Holy Spirit. Try as we might, this life, no matter how good a life it may be, is meaningless without eternal redemption.

We can find true happiness, contentment and peace now but only in the hope of the eternal world. 

The sanctuary shows the way of eternity.

To be continued by the grace of God.