God's Redemption Vehicle - Ruminating in the Word of God

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Exodus 39:42-43,

"The Israelites had done all the work just as the Lord had commanded Moses. Moses inspected the work and saw that they had done it just as the Lord had commanded. So Moses blessed them."

Here is the comment made when the tabernacle and its furnishings were completed. We will read about the setting up of all these things in the next chapter of Exodus, the last chapter of the book. 

God chose to redeem mankind from his own justice following his fall in the garden of Eden. A big piece of that plan was to establish a people for himself through which he would communicate his plan of redemption to mankind and through which he would also bring his redeemer into the world, Jesus Christ. 

Among mankind God found a man, Abraham, who manifested the kind of faith God would look for in all people, Jews and Gentiles alike, that he would extend the riches of his redemption to. So, God entered into a covenant with Abraham to make a people from him to become that vehicle to bring about his plan of redemption.

A piece of developing this covenanted people, Israel, was to establish his presence among them and provide for worship, instruction and national life to aid his plan of redemption. The completion of the tabernacle is chronicled here for us as we observe how God developed Israel to be what he needed for his purposes. This is the whole point of much of the material we read in the Old Testament.

I find it all just fascinating!!

Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!

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