The Girdle

The girdle of the ephod was of the same beautiful materials as the ephod itself (Ex. 28:8). It seems to have been used to bind the ephod upon the high priest. In the girdle we get the thought of service (Luke 12:37). Christ our High Priest never ceases to serve. The love that led Him to die for us, leads Him to live for us. The bitter waters of death that rolled over His soul, could not quench that love; it lives in all its unchanging power and blessedness today. In God’s presence for His people, He is thinking of them in all their weakness and all their need; He is concerned in all that concerns them. He is pleading their cause with the Father, and meeting all the accusations that the enemy of souls is bringing against them. Failure after failure marks the steps of His people, but His love for them changes not. Their hearts often grow cold, and their feet turn into a wrong path; unwearyingly He follows them, and in tenderest love restores; His care for them, notwithstanding their perversities, never ceases. Unfalteringly He nourishes and cherishes them. The hands of Moses grew weary, and had they not been upheld by Aaron and Hur until the going down of the sun, the battle would not have been to Israel. Our blessed High Priest needs none to stay His hands; they are ever uplifted in intercession in behalf of His people (Heb. 7:25). Those who come unto God by Him are saved “to the uttermost.” Triumphant victory will be theirs — “more than conquerors” through Him that loved them.