“Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamp from evening until morning before the LORD.” (v. 21)

It’s the kind of thing we breeze past in the Scriptures:

The Tabernacle for worship had a lamp, and the lamp was tended by the priests, and the priests were commanded to do so from evening until morning every day (or, more accurately, night).

It doesn’t seem super relevant to us—or even to Israel, whose Tabernacle and Temples are now dust.

But try seeing it this way:

When the LORD calls His people to worship—by His sheer grace!—there is no time when all of it is put to bed. Worship isn’t confined to business hours. It was never designed as a once-a-week check-your-children-in and check-the-box event. Tending the light we would keep on earth—the light of prayer and offering and music and devotion—is an all-times invitation, a command for day and night, for His glory in our lives.

Beware snuffing the candle every Sunday lunchtime. Learn to tend the light across all of life’s moments.

—Tyler