What Does It Mean to Carry the Weight of His Presence?

Discover how to let go of worldly burdens and embrace the weight of God's Presence, living as a royal priesthood, and fulfilling your calling.

Several times in scripture our faith journey is compared to a race we must run like an athlete. To run our race to win we must let go of our pride and throw aside the weights of this world that we may think are necessary, in exchange for the weight of glory, the weight of His Presence.

Hebrews 12:2 says, “Looking away from all that will distract us to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith and is also its Finisher. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.” The weights of this world can lead us to performance, worry, anxieties, fear, but the weight of His Presence is light and frees us to live the way we were always meant to live, in communion with God.

In 2 Samuel 6, when King David was on his way to bring the Ark of the Covenant back into Jerusalem, he had it carried in on oxen, but on the way there the oxen stumbled, and as one of his men reached out and held the Ark from falling, God struck him dead for having touched the Ark irreverently. The Ark was never meant to be carried on oxen, it was always meant to be carried with poles on the shoulders of Jewish priests.

In 1 Peter 2:9 it says, “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”

So, may we rise to the call of our new identity, and as priests of the Almighty God, carry the weight of His Presence, the weight of His glory into our homes, our workplaces and our world.

«Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.»

Hebrews 12:1

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with Rory Helart, Youth Pastor at Bethel Church.

Kingdom Leadership, Redding California, Bethel Church Leaders, faith in school, Leaders Network, BLN Membership, Youth Pastor, Young Saints

3 Keys to welcoming the Presence of God in our lives:

God comes where He is wanted. Our hunger for God invites His Presence to come. Are we desperate for God to move in our midst? Ask God to stir a deeper hunger within for the “more” of His Presence in our lives.
God comes where He is honored. Reverence for the holiness of His Presence invites Him to come. When - empowered by grace - we seek to live lives of holiness, we create a beautiful and attractive landing place for a Holy God to come.
Remain present in the Presence. To lay aside the weights that so easily entangle us, requires us to remain present everyday, aware that in Him we live and move and have our being.