Exodus 25 – 27
Today is Day 26 on our plan to read the bible in a year.
At the risk of summing this up TOO completely, I love these 3 chapters. Why? Because it’s a beautiful example of how God wants His house built. He told Moses to take up a love offering. It’s not Tithes. It’s not the sin offering, or the heave offering, or the wave offering, or an oblation or anything else that was not only needed, it was commanded.
Nope. This time God says to have people give as much as they can give with a willing heart. On the outside it looks like God is asking for money. But think about that one and you’ll realize how silly that sounds. So why would God want PEOPLE to give to something that He could have just provided for — say, like they’re stomping around the wilderness and a goat falls into a canyon cracked open by a quake that reveals a huge gold vein…you know, something like that — but He says no, He wants everybody who is willing to participate, to jump in and do it.
Then there are a couple chapters about how excellent He wants the job done.
So here I am, just a willing pastor with a building program going on. Hahaha. Here’s God showing me in His word that I’m not the first minister in history with a calling to build a sacred place for His Presence, and need to pull some money together to do it. I wonder if Moses looked around for a gold-filled canyon?
The real reason I think God wants them to give is so they can have the legal right to be blessed! You have to sow before you get to reap. Period.
There’s a truth in history: if you want Bible results, you need to do Bible things. Dig deep, find the depth of your willing heart, and give! We are going to finish the job God has put before us, and wouldn’t you like to be part of a great thing He has done? From the Biblical example, I see that is His plan.
It’s Thursday
Last night during Bible Study, we saw that the Apostle Paul teaches us this:
Use whatever reason you can find to send you to prayer!
Like that time I bought flowers for Karen because it was Wednesday. Or the time you called that friend because you saw a flock of seagulls and it reminded you of a concert where you saw somebody who reminded you of them. It doesn’t matter what the reason is, as long as you use it as a reason to go to God like it matters!
So….it’s Thursday. What are you going to do? I know what I’m doing.
