God is in the Details
How did Moses record all the Tabernacle details? There were no computers with email or fax machines. Let's get real, there wasn't even a good Bic pen around. I guess he had 40 days and nights on that mountain with God to go over all the specifics, but I'm hoping he didn't have to carve them into stone.
Have them make an ark of acacia wood-two and a half cubits long,
a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
Exodus 25:10
F. LaGard Smith says, "These details (of the Tabernacle) show how strongly God feels about the purity of his people, the constancy of their worship, the need for sacrifices and offerings, and the value of all that is dedicated to God's service."
How often do we consider these key elements of our faith.
Our purityOur constant worship
Our sacrifices
Our offerings
Our service to God.
The attention to detail, which God delivers to Moses related to the Tabernacle, makes a strong statement about how specifically God is involved in the lives of his people and what great expectations he has for precise obedience to whatever commands he gives.
In a Priscilla Shirer study on Jonah, which I'm presently going through with a group of women, I was sufficiently amazed at the specific orders for Jonah to do two things…
Go to the great city of Ninevah and preach against it. Jonah 1:2 Jonah's heart didn't allow him to pull off those two requests and Moses obeyed hundreds of details to the quarter of an inch!
Dare we be still and get alone with God today and ask him what it is he has for us to do?
I'm thinking, what might He ask me to construct.
Bake the pie with fresh pecans, keep it in the oven no more than 37 minutes, allow it to set for 10 minutes before covering it with foil and placing it in your car. Drive east 13 miles and turn onto Need Some Cheer Drive and take it to the door of a hurting heart. Be sure you tape a scripture onto the top of the foil! :-)
