What holds us back and tabernacles

We often know what we are to do as a Christian, but it's a matter of energy (to do it), and valuation (for the goal).

As stated this is once we get over the obstacle of ignorance. Ignorance, weakness, valuation.

We could sit at the feet of Jesus Himself and learn at the most practical level the ways of a soldier of Christ, and then later not value what we learned, or be too weak to enact it.

1. It takes effort and valuation to not only read but to absorb and meditate upon the word of God.

2. It takes knowledge, effort and valuation to be in a state of presence where it's possible to love God and His commandments more than resentment and the ways of acting the world wants to see us manifest in any given moment or event.

3. It takes knowledge, effort, and valuation to love our enemy and our neighbor when it's most difficult to love them.

4. It takes effort and valuation to pray.

5. It takes effort and valuation to get over worldly shame and embarrassment to evangelize.

Those are five things a soldier of Christ, actively (consciously) on the spiritual battlefield, would be doing. It is how one truly is 'in covenant.' Making one's way to Zion. God's Kingdom.

The birds of the air have nests, and animals have their lairs, but a human being has nowhere to rest himself; yet if one can see them, God provides tabernacles, with inner courts designed for contemplation, while one is on the pilgrimage. Not a temple set on a plot of actual ground, but a tabernacle, like being in a cosmos that provides you cover and protection (though not from the friction of the world, your fallen nature, and the Devil, which you need, to overcome). These are above time, above geography phenomena. Psalm 84 for the usual types demanding biblical reference for such 'wacky' notions. Part of the protection of a tabernacle is from people like that though. They can't get anywhere near such a thing...