Generous Hearts
Exodus 25:2
"Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from each man whose heart prompts him to give.
Exodus 35:21
and everyone who was willing and whose heart moved him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all its service, and for the sacred garments.
Moses was about to make the tabernacle. It was a beautiful, big tent, with curtains of purple and blue, fittings of silver and bronze, and furnishings of wood and gold. Everything in it had meaning beyond the material--it was an earthly version of something in Heaven, or it was specially designed to teach about God as the people worshipped there. It was a tent because the people were on the move, and different Levite families had responsibility for carrying and putting up different parts of it. The twelve tribes were arranged in a certain way on the four sides of the tabernacle, so that it was central to their camp.
But before that, all the materials for it were given by the Israelites. All those goodies they'd carried from Egypt were brought out and offered. In the end, they had too much. Moses had to tell the people to quit bringing things. Their hearts were open to the call.
God, let my heart be listening, first of all, when the request is made. And then make my heart to be generous, selfless, open.
The opposite of hard.
"Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from each man whose heart prompts him to give.
Exodus 35:21
and everyone who was willing and whose heart moved him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all its service, and for the sacred garments.
Moses was about to make the tabernacle. It was a beautiful, big tent, with curtains of purple and blue, fittings of silver and bronze, and furnishings of wood and gold. Everything in it had meaning beyond the material--it was an earthly version of something in Heaven, or it was specially designed to teach about God as the people worshipped there. It was a tent because the people were on the move, and different Levite families had responsibility for carrying and putting up different parts of it. The twelve tribes were arranged in a certain way on the four sides of the tabernacle, so that it was central to their camp.
But before that, all the materials for it were given by the Israelites. All those goodies they'd carried from Egypt were brought out and offered. In the end, they had too much. Moses had to tell the people to quit bringing things. Their hearts were open to the call.
God, let my heart be listening, first of all, when the request is made. And then make my heart to be generous, selfless, open.
The opposite of hard.
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