Let’s be honest: chapters 36-39 can make for a lot of dry reading. Especially when you consider that much of it is a repetition of what was written about in chapters 25-30.
Chapters 25-30 were the instructions.
Chapters 36-39 were the Israelites following those instructions.
That seems to be the main point in chapter 39.
Again and again, we see the words, “just as the Lord had commanded Moses.” (1, 5, 7, 21, 26, 29, 31, 32, 43)
God had given the Israelites all the wisdom, understanding, and skill necessary to do the job. (Exodus 35:31-36:2)
But they didn’t just do things as they saw fit. They didn’t do what simply seemed expedient.
They did things God’s way.
No shortcuts. No compromise.
Can we say the same about ourselves in our work? In our ministry? In everything we do?
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