February 10, 2011 God Gives More

God Gives More
Read Exodus 37-39

Ex 39:43 Moses inspected the work and saw that they had done it just as the LORD had commanded. So Moses blessed them.

MOSES inspected the completed tabernacle and Ark of the Covenant. Moses was God’s representative to determine that those whom God had gifted to craft, carve, sew, measure, and shape Jehovah Lord’s dwelling on earth had competed the work as instructed.
I’m thinking that Bezalel, the gifted craftsman, and the others must have been overjoyed to hear they had pleased Jehovah with their gifts.
Yes, Jehovah had gifted them to complete this particular work. And he has gifted you to complete some work for him today—and throughout your life.
On some days God calls you to respond with the gift of love or forgiveness or helps in the normal course of your life. On other days, he invites you to walk into a new place to respond with his gifts to do something brand new. Perhaps you will be called to teach a Sunday school class or pray for someone you don’t really know or lead a bible study or ask your spouse for forgiveness.
In each place you use God’s gifts, you show him to those around you, and in this way you are building a “tabernacle”, a place where God’s Spirit can come and make a difference.
The tabernacle will be the place he’s invited you to go and meet with him and to do his work.
To tabernacle, means to dwell with God. And when you trust God’s gifts to do his work well, God will come in His Spirit and he will say, “I am here with you.”


Pause and Consider: invite God to sit down beside you.