Are You a Modern Day Levite?

Are you set apart and consecrated for the service and worship of the Lord?

Consecration - a term we do not hear very often today - it means the devoting or setting apart of anything to the worship or service of God.*

Levite - a descendant of the tribe of Levi (Exodus 6:25; Leviticus 25:32; Numbers 35:2; Joshua 21:3,41). Generally used as the title of that portion of the tribe set apart for subordinate offices of the sanctuary service (1 Kings 8:4; Ezra 7:70), as assistants to the priests. They were selected for this purpose because of their zeal for the glory of God (Exodus 32:26). They were the special guardians of the tabernacle (Numbers 1:51; 18:22-24).*

Moses was commanded to take the Levites from among all the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean (Numbers 8:5-7). In 2 Chronicles 7:1-3, at the dedication of the Temple, when Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple. The priests could not enter the temple of the Lord because the glory of the Lord filled it. When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the Lord above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground and worshiped and gave thanks.*

*Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary and www.biblegateway.com

We are now the temple of the Holy Spirit (the place where God's glory and presence is supposed to dwell (1 Corinthians 3:16) and our God is a consuming fire (Deuteronomy 4:24; Hebrews 12:29). If we continually place ourselves on the altar, we will be consumed with Him and His glory will be revealed in and through us.

Could it be that many of us are not consecrated because we are more consumed with the things of the world and the things of the flesh, rather than the Spirit of God?

Do you have a zeal or passion for the glory of God? (Exodus 32:26)

Are you a conduit for God's presence to be experienced in the earth?

We are a royal priesthood, called to be set apart for the purpose of revealing God's glory (1 Peter 2:9) - hence a modern day Levite so to speak.

Romans 11:36 tells us that "of Him and through Him and to Him are all things and to Him be the glory forever." The verses immediately following in Romans 12:1-2 then command us to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice, renew our minds according to God's word, so that we can be transformed into His image (not conformists to our culture), and thru this surrender, we will prove or demonstrate God's will. Perhaps, we are not seeing more of God's glory personally and/or in the corporate body of Christ, because so few are truly offering themselves, being transformed by the Word, and fully surrendering in every area of our lives.