August 16, 2024
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Reading along with us in selections from Exodus and Galatians? Here’s today’s reading:
Exodus 39 (NIV)
The Priestly Garments
1 From the blue, purple and scarlet yarn they made woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary. They also made sacred garments for Aaron, as the Lord commanded Moses.……Continue Reading
Ephesians 1
“For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.”
Ephesians 1:4-6 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/eph.1.5-6.NIV
”According to all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work. Then Moses looked over all the work, and indeed they had done it; as the Lord had commanded, just so they had done it. And Moses blessed them.“
Exodus 39:42-43 NKJV
Exodus 39 and 40
Exodus 39
So the work was completed and they did it just as God had instructed them. What care and attention was necessary and what humility would come from knowing for Whom these things were made and why they were being made. And a similar dynamic is in us when we do all our hands find to do, to the glory of the Lord.
Exodus 39
How wonderful for this elaborate and beautiful finished work to finally be done and done perfectly to God’s plan and design.
Exodus 39