Thank you Susan and thank you Gotribe for such encouragement <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

We know that in the old testament, things were but a shadow..

Colossians 2:16-23
16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.

So now I am wondering more specifically then, what did the oil represent in the old testament? I did the search for oil, and mostly it was used for light in the temple. There are of course many other uses, but since the temple was a shadow, or a copy for lack of a better word.. it had to have a meaning.
I think maybe it represented something?

I probably won't use oil in our home, but I will still pray in it. I guess I don't see anything wrong with that.. but I guess I am still intersted in what the oil represents.

Anyway, any thoughts?

Michele