Thirty-one Meditations on Christ

same assurance of faith, cause me to add “me,” “me”—Jesus “loved me, and gave himself
for me”!
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“Thou shalt put in the breastplate of
judgment the Urim and the Thummim;
and they shall be upon Aaron’s heart.”
—Exodus 28:30
There is something very interesting in this account of “the Urim and the Thummim,”
though in the present distance of time we can at the best form nothing more
than conjectures as to what they were. But through grace and the teaching of the
Holy Ghost, we can have clear views of what they meant.
The general acceptations of the Hebrew words are lights and perfections. As Aaron,
bearing on his breast plate “the Urim and the Thummim” as high priest, became
a living type of Christ, there can be no difficulty in beholding Jesus represented as
the light and perfection of His people. And as Aaron bare all the names of the people
upon his breast, where “the Urim and Thummim” were worn, how delightful is it to
see Jesus thus represented as bearing all the persons of His redeemed, in His own
light and perfection, when He goes in before the presence of God for us. Sweet and
precious thought to the believer!
And now the Church cries out: “Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon
thine arm” (Song 8:6). And so important did this appear to Moses when dying, that
he expressly prayed, “Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy <strong>one</strong>” (Deu
33:8). Now here we have at once the application of the whole; for Who is Jehovah’s
Holy One but the Lord Jesus Christ? With Him they eminently remain, and with Him
only, for during the captivity they were lost with the Temple, and were never again
restored. But with Jesus the continuance is everlasting, for He has “an unchangeable
priesthood” (Heb 7:24), and is the “same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Heb
13:8).
Precious Lord Jesus, be “the Urim and the Thummim” to my soul; for You are
both the light and perfection of Your people, in grace here and in glory forever.
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