I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading. I had been using One Year Bible Online, but it was time for a change. Today’s study is a little on the short side. I think that may be common this year. Of course, I will warn you, that means that some day’s studies will be a bit long

Today, I am reading and commenting on Exodus 25-27.

    Whenever I read the description of the design for the Tabernacle and its furnishings I struggle to see what God is communicating to me in this passage. Today as I read this it stuck me how beautiful all of these things would have been. I think in some ways that is the point of these passages for us today. There is value in creating a place of beauty as a place to worship God. There is danger there as well, but that is not what these passages are about. These passages describe the Tabernacle, the Ark of the Covenant, and the Tabernacle furnishings as things of great beauty. The beauty of these things enhanced the ability of the children of Israel to worship God. We must not overlook how beauty will do the same for us.