Tues.’s Devo - Exact Measures

Read Ex. 38:25-31 More numbers. The silver that the people gave was a hundred, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels. “Hundred” means “fullness”; “thousand” means “maturity”; “seven hundred” means “complete fullness”; threescore means “conformed to holiness” and “fifteen” means “grace and liberty”. That describes what giving to the Lord will cause us to reap: full maturity, everything we need, holiness and freedom. (Where’s my checkbook!) They were all required to give a bekah if they were 20 years old and older. This was their tabernacle tax. The total people that gave were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred. Using the meaning of these numbers it describes them as complete and mature, fully conformed to God’s image, and full of grace. This was how God saw them and this is how God sees us. They took this money and used it to make the sockets, pins, pillars, brazen altar, and its grate. Everything was meted out exactly and precisely. See how meticulous God was in making the tabernacle which was a temporary dwelling place for his presence? He is that meticulous in building us into his image because we are his tabernacle that houses the presence of God. Everything about us, he planned strategically for his purposes. I am in the middle of a project that should have taken a day, but instead has taken all week and I’m still not through. Though it has been exasperating and time consuming (which is something I don’t have enough of) it has taught me several ways NOT to make this window treatment. It has helped me see how every measurement and every fold is strategically important and effects the whole look of the curtain. That is how it works in the body of Christ. We all need to be it the right place doing the right thing so that we will flow as one unit. Lord, thank you that we are wonderfully and fearfully made and you know our needs and our every thought. We praise you!