Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. Ezekiel 42:5-6
What were those chambers for? It’s possible that they were for the private worship of God. We have congregational worship, but we are also expected to worship God in secret.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. Matthew 6:6
In this verse, Jesus explains that we need to reach out to God secretly where only He sees us. He brought this up because many wanted others to see their devotion to God; Jesus saw what they were doing and knew it had nothing to do with their devotion to God but was a way to increase themselves in front of other people. Somehow they thought it made them look holy. When you worship in public, do you draw attention to yourself? Is your display about Jesus or is it about you? Do you stand on the front row and carry on so others see you or do you keep your worship reverent and solemn before God? Worship is to raise up God, not you. Assess your actions, determine if they are for God or for yourself, and make the appropriate corrections.
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