As I read now and have read Exodus 26 before with such exact detailing of how God’s tabernacle in the desert was to be built, I can’t help but marvel at how much better I could appreciate it were I a fine craftsman. I’m such a visual person so reading specifications like this I get…

Imagine you are Moses on the mountain with God and you’re receiving instructions for something so beautiful and never before made by humans inspired by instruction from Almighty God. “Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I…

In Exodus 24 the Lord told Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You are to worship at a distance, but Moses alone is to approach the Lord; the others must not come near. And the people may not come up with him.”…

When you read Scripture to know God’s heart for you, how can you not find His tender care for us? Exodus 23 is as relevant today as it was for ancient Israel. “Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness. Do not follow the crowd in doing…

Exodus 22 continues laying out guidelines for how the Israelites were to begin to be changed in how they treated one another and how they loved God. God’s love for us is at the heart of all His instructions. How could you steal if you had love for the person you stole from? If an…

Right after giving the Ten Commandments, God gives laws that will guide and govern this nation of Israelites beginning in Exodus 21. They are laws to govern Hebrew servants, personal injuries from people or animals or to people or animals. I couldn’t help but think as I read them that God was concerned with both…

In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. Ephesians 2:21-22. What beautiful words, what amazing truth…that we are being built together to become a dwelling…

It’s good to reflect on all that God has done and that He does for us still, every day. Highly trained astronauts experience the awe that comes from seeing our beautiful planet from space suspended and held by design so elegant our minds can’t comprehend it fully. I can’t help but consider all the ways…

There are times when I read Scripture and my heart is lifted up with possibility. Now Jethro, the priest of Midian and father-in-law of Moses, heard of everything God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, and how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. Exodus 18:1. Jethro was delighted to hear…

We can read Scripture over and over and yet something will always stand out that we couldn’t see before. In Exodus 17 we first encounter Joshua and the first people to attack the Israelites. The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim. Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out…