Wendall Parr has some awesome revelation of the OT. He shared this today, and it was powerful to me…

“And when the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the Lord defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Shiloh to us, that when it comes among us it may save us from the hand of our enemies.””
‭‭I Samuel‬ ‭4‬:‭3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/114/1sa.4.3.NKJV (emphasis mine)

It?

When did He, become an It?

IT, the arc of the Old Testament, was indeed the very presence of God, and Gods people were calling Him, IT.

Are we guilty of the same? Have we turned the presence of God away by our infatuation with the “IT” we made Him into?

The presence of God is not an IT…

Not a church building.

Not joining a certain church.

Not communion.

Not a prophetic word.

Not baptism.

Not Sunday school.

Not Bible studies.

Not a certain routine of confessions or spoken formulas.

Salvation is in a person, not a thing.

The Israelites had turned the arc into a thing, an IT.

Let’s not follow suit.

Salvation, life, truth, is in the person of Jesus Christ. The personal relationship we have with Him.

The enemy knows the person. The presence. The power. It’s pretty apparent to the outsiders.

It should be so much more so to us.