Exodus 20:24-25 "'Make an altar of earth for Me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. If you make an altar of stones for Me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it.
(The people had just seen the Lord's majestic and fearsome presentation of His Presence. In an extreme contrast to that great display, He tells the people to build an altar of worship for Him out of nothing more than plain earth or uncut stones as a reminder that nothing they can make or accomplish with their own efforts can compete with or reach to the level of God's extreme holiness. Here, the Lord reminds us that He Himself establishes the place and the manner in which we can approach Him. Today, He has Himself made the ultimate sacrifice and now Jesus is the supreme Offering made to the Father for us, causing us to be pleasing and acceptable to Him.
The Lord God Almighty does not need our worship, because He is complete in Himself and needs nothing, but He knows that our worship of Him is essential to us, only benefits us, and fills a deep need in us to worship.)
Wherever I cause My Name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.'"
(The Lord promises His people that He will always respond to their worship. Today, He still comes to us to bless us as we worship Him. Today, He still honors this ancient promise that He will cause us to worship Him in ways that are acceptable to Him and in ways that allow us to come near to Him.
Today, He still honors His ancient covenant sealed in the shed blood of Christ to be our God and to call us His people.)
