Barnabas Ministries UK

                      The late Rev. A. Linford

REVERENCE

“You shall reverence my sanctuary” – Leviticus 19: 30

While God does not dwell in temples made with hands as if to adorn men’s work, yet wherever His presence is manifested that place is holy.

Humble chapel or mighty cathedral, marble pile or mud- and-wattle hut is made sacred when He is there. And His presence calls for reverence and holy fear.

Rev Mackey, minister of a Boscombe church, wrote this verse and placed it at the entrance of a new Youth Chapel:-

“Enter this door

As if the floor

Within were gold.

And every wall

Of jewels, all

Of wealth untold.

As if a choir in robes of fire

Were singing there

No shout. no rush

But hush …..

For God is near”.

Indeed, in those precious places devoted to divine service, rush, racket and revelry are out of place. We do not worship bricks and mortar, but we do respect the place where God reveals Himself, whether it be the great outdoors or the glad indoors. We reverence His sanctuary because we revere Him.