Exodus 40:6-11: in context

As the tabernacle is set up, God gives instructions for consecrating it. Set the altar and the basin in their places, arrange the court; and then take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it, and it will be holy. Anoint the altar and all its vessels, and the altar will be most holy; anoint the basin and its base. The ordinary objects of the tabernacle, wood and metal and cloth, are set apart and made holy by being anointed and dedicated to God.

What happens in this passage is consecration: ordinary things are made holy by being set apart and anointed for God. The altar, the basin, the furnishings, were made of ordinary materials, wood, bronze, cloth; there was nothing intrinsically holy about them. What made them holy was that they were anointed with oil and set apart for God's use, dedicated to him, no longer common but consecrated. The anointing marked them as belonging to God, reserved for his service, made holy by that dedication. And this points to a truth about ourselves. The New Testament takes up this language of anointing and consecration and applies it to God's people: we are the ones now set apart, anointed by God's Spirit, made holy not by anything intrinsic in us but by being dedicated to God and marked as his. He anointed us, Paul says, and gave us the down payment of his Spirit; your body, he says, is a temple of the Holy Spirit. We are, like the tabernacle's furnishings, ordinary in ourselves, and made holy by being set apart for God, consecrated, marked as his own. There is a dignity and a calling in this. The dignity is that we are not common but consecrated, set apart for God, made holy by belonging to him, anointed by his Spirit. And the calling is to live as what we are: not common, but holy; not our own, but God's; set apart for his purposes, as the anointed altar was set apart for its. The altar, once anointed, was no longer to be used for common purposes; it was holy, reserved for God. And we, set apart and anointed by God, are likewise no longer common but consecrated, called to live as those made holy for God's use. To remember that we are consecrated, set apart and marked as God's own, is to be called to a life that matches the anointing: holy, dedicated, reserved for the purposes of the God to whom we belong.

Do I live as though I were common, ordinary, my own to do with as I please, or can I remember that, like the tabernacle set apart and anointed for God, I have been consecrated, marked by God's Spirit as his own, and called to a life that matches that anointing, holy and dedicated to the God to whom I belong?