The Approach

One of my favorite things on a recent vacation in Orlando, FL was a trip to the Holy Land Experience.  If you haven't been there, it's sort of like a theme park without the rides!!!  The entire complex is devoted to taking you on a trip to the Holy Land, and one of the things I love there is the replica of the tabernacle.  More recently, of course, I've been to the actual Holy Land.  There's no tabernacle there now, and the Temple Mount has a mosque on it, but every where there are hints of what was once there. 

On one side of the Temple Mount, outside the wall, you can see steps that led up to the Temple.  The interesting thing to me about these steps is that they are uneven.......some are wide, some are narrow, some are in-between.  The result is that there would have been no casual skipping up the steps to worship at the Temple.  The nature of the steps requires that the approach be slow and deliberate.
I think there may be a lesson for us there.  Have we become too casual in our approach to worship?  Something to think about.

"Who may ascend the hill of the Lord?  And who may stand in His holy place?  He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood and has not sworn deceitfully."  (Psalm 24:3-4)