I was reading through the story of the Israelites as they built the Tabernacle in Exodus, and I came upon this passage.
Exodus 35:2-7
2 Then Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the LORD had given ability and who was willing to come and do the work. 3 They received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to carry out the work of constructing the sanctuary. And the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning. 4 So all the skilled craftsmen who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left their work 5 and said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than enough for doing the work the LORD commanded to be done.“ 6 Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp: “No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” And so the people were restrained from bringing more,7 because what they already had was more than enough to do all the work.
The Israelites just kept giving and giving and giving… They gave until the craftsman actually said, “Stop!”
What about us?
Are we giving to God, to our Churches, to others like that?
Just a thought…
in Christ,
Isaiah
