Ezekiel Chapter 41
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"Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle. "
"Then the man brought Ezekiel to the temple itself and measured its entrance pillars: six cubits wide on each side - the same width as the old tabernacle."
New beginnings don't have to abandon everything that came before - the best fresh starts often carry forward what was genuinely good from your past.
"And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits. "
"The doorway was ten cubits wide, with five cubits of wall on either side of it; he measured the main room: forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide."
Give your regular, everyday practices - the quiet habits, not just the big dramatic moments - enough room to actually happen properly.
"Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. "
"Going further in, he measured the doorposts of the next doorway: two cubits, the door itself: six cubits, and the width of the doorway: seven cubits."
Not everything belongs at the very centre of your life - let the doorway narrow the deeper you go, keeping only what truly matters closest to your core.
"So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place. "
"He measured that inner room: twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, set before the main temple hall. Then he told Ezekiel: this is the most holy place."
Everything you build up to in life should be leading somewhere real at the centre - make sure your own 'most holy place', whatever is most sacred to you, actually exists and isn't left empty.
"After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side. "
"Then he measured the wall of the temple building: six cubits thick, and the side rooms built around it on every side: four cubits wide each."
Protect what's most precious to you with real substance, not a flimsy boundary - and still keep practical space nearby to support it.
"And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house. "
"These side chambers were arranged in three storeys, thirty rooms to each level; they were supported by ledges built into the temple wall itself, without being structurally built into the actual sanctuary wall."
You can meet your practical, everyday needs without letting them erode what matters most at your core - find ways to support your life that don't undermine your deepest values.
"And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst. "
"The side chambers widened as they rose - each storey was broader than the one below, because the structure widened in steps going upward round the temple, from the lowest level to the highest by way of the middle one."
Don't assume growth has to mean things getting tighter and harder - sometimes the higher you build on a good foundation, the more room actually opens up.
"I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. "
"Ezekiel also saw the height of the whole structure all around: the foundations of the side chambers stood a full measuring rod high - six long cubits."
Pay attention to your own foundations - the unseen habits and convictions holding you up - not just the visible parts of your life people actually notice.
"The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within. "
"The outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits thick; the remaining space was left open, running alongside the side chambers of the temple."
You don't have to fill every part of your schedule or your life with activity - leaving some space deliberately open is part of good planning too.
"And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. "
"Between the side chambers and the priests' rooms there was an open space twenty cubits wide, running all the way around the temple."
Let the different roles and relationships in your life have some breathing room between them, rather than letting everything crowd in on top of each other.
"And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about. "
"The side chambers had doors opening onto that open space - one door facing north, another facing south - and the open space itself was five cubits wide all around."
Provide more than one honest way in and out of the situations you build for people - don't force everyone through a single narrow route if you don't have to.
"Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. "
"A separate building stood facing the temple's western end, across the open area: seventy cubits wide, with a wall five cubits thick all around, and ninety cubits long."
Not everything valuable needs to be in the same place or serve the same function - it's fine for different good things in your life to be genuinely separate from one another.
"So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; "
"So he measured the whole temple building: a hundred cubits long; and the separate area with its building and walls: also a hundred cubits long."
Step back sometimes and check the big picture, not just the individual rooms - make sure your life as a whole still adds up to something balanced.
"Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits. "
"The width across the front of the temple, including the separate area, facing east, was also a hundred cubits."
Let the values at the centre of your life shape the whole shape of it, right out to the edges - consistency from your innermost convictions to your outward habits.
"And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court; "
"He measured the length of the western building, facing the separate area behind it, including its galleries on both sides: a hundred cubits, along with the inner temple and the porches of the court."
Some truths are worth repeating until they actually sink in - don't be embarrassed by returning again and again to the same core principle in your own life.
"The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered; "
"The doorposts, the narrow windows, and the galleries on all three storeys, opposite the doorway, were panelled with wood all around; from the ground up to the windows, and the windows themselves, were covered."
Keep what's most sacred to you accessible but not completely exposed - some things deserve a filter, not a floodlight.
"To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure. "
"This panelling extended above the doorway, right into the inner room, and outward too, covering the whole wall, inside and out, all carefully measured."
Let your outward behaviour and your innermost character actually match - don't save your best self only for what people can see from outside.
"And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces; "
"The panelling was carved with cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between each pair of cherubim; each cherub had two faces."
What was lost at the beginning of the story isn't gone forever - I'm in the business of restoring paradise, guarded and full of life, even after it's been shut off for a long time.
"So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about. "
"Each cherub had a human face turned towards the palm tree on one side and a young lion's face turned towards the palm tree on the other side, carved throughout the whole temple all around."
You don't have to choose between being gentle and being strong - hold both together, like these carvings do, and you'll be far harder to knock down than someone who's only ever one or the other.
"From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple. "
"From the floor up to above the doorway, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the temple."
Let meaning and beauty run all through your life, not just in the occasional highlight - even the parts that feel routine deserve some care and craft.
"The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other. "
"The doorposts of the temple were square in shape, matching the front of the sanctuary; the outer room and the inner sanctuary looked the same as each other."
Aim for that same continuity in yourself - let your public life and your most private, inner life look recognisably like the same person.
"The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD. "
"There was a wooden altar, three cubits high and two cubits long, with its corners, its length, and its sides all made of wood; the man told Ezekiel: this is the table that stands before the LORD."
You don't need to be the grandest, most impressive thing in the room to stand closest to what matters - quiet, faithful service right at the centre counts for more than outward show.
"And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. "
"Both the outer temple hall and the inner sanctuary had two doors each."
Give the important transitions in your life proper, solid thresholds - don't let entry into what matters most feel flimsy or an afterthought.
"And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door. "
"Each door had two leaves that folded - two folding leaves for one door, and two folding leaves for the other."
It's fine for your own openness to flex with the moment - you don't have to be equally wide open all the time to be genuine.
"And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without. "
"The doors of the temple were carved with cherubim and palm trees, just like the walls, and there were thick wooden planks across the front of the outer porch."
Let the things you actually touch and use daily carry real meaning too, not just the parts of your life reserved for special occasions.
"And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks. "
"There were narrow windows and palm tree carvings on both sides of the porch, on the side chambers of the temple, and on the thick planks."
Aim for that same seamlessness in your own life: let your convictions show consistently from your most private centre out to the very edges other people actually see.