Not a Hoof

If you're reading through the Bible according to the plan, then you're reading Exodus right now. I've often heard that our Christian experience can be compared with the experience of the Hebrews, who were led out of captivity by the Lord with Moses at the head of the pack. We're delivered from spiritual bondage and led into the Promised Land of eternity. I've even heard that Ex 10:26 is a good parallel for our holiness - that not one hoof (or other part of ourselves) should be left behind in bondage.

That's all good, but this passage really slammed into me last night. Moses tells Pharaoh that not even a hoof of the least of the livestock should be left behind because they don't know how they are to worship the Lord. In other words, EVERYTHING needed to leave Egypt to go to Sinai so that EVERYTHING would be available for worship, should the Lord choose to tell them to worship with anything.

Are we like this in worship? (By worship, I'm not talking about music. Music and worship are completely different...even to a musician who's also a worship leader.) Do we bring EVERYTHING out to worship the Lord in case He chooses to ask for something in our lives? Moses knew that the Lord could ask for anything as an offering. Do we know that? If we do, do we bring everything? If not, why not?

I suspect this is why we do not see fulness in worship - we don't bring everything. We're used to bringing our bodies to church, small groups, or whatever. We're used to bringing our music. We're used to bringing our ears to listen and our eyes to observe. The only way for our ears truly to hear, our eyes truly to see, and our minds truly to comprehend (see Isaiah and Matthew) is for EVERYTHING about us to be available as an offering, should the Lord request it. Doesn't this sound like entire sanctification, too? You mean worship might actually have something to do with our sanctification? You mean our salvation is actually played out in our worship?

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!