Numbers 7:1
“When Moses finished setting up The Dwelling, he anointed it and consecrated it along with all that went with it. At the same time he anointed and consecrated the Altar and its accessories.”
“On the day Moses set up the Tabernacle, he anointed it and set it apart as holy. He also anointed and set apart all its furnishings and the altar with its utensils.”
It is easy to read over this lightly. All the ceremony in the Pentateuch is fatiguing and we breeze past it. But it was utterly serious business for Moses. He was the one who survived a conversation with God lasting forty days. He knew this God who had taken them out of Egypt was no one to mess with. Consecration ritual was a physical acknowledgement of a spiritual reality. God is holy. It is the first thing we need to learn about him. Otherwise, there is no awareness of sin and no need for a savior.
Lord Jesus, thank you facing and enduring the cross, finishing the work of redemption. Thank you for doing it for me, because I need it. I need you.