REMEMBER 2010 - Details

Consider
Usually we hear that "The Devil is in the details." Did you know, however, that there was an earlier phrase, "Le bon Dieu est dans le detail" (the good God is in the detail) generally attributed to Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)?

Read
Exodus 35:1-21

Moses assembled all the congregation of the Israelites and said to them: These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do:

For six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. You shall kindle no fire in all your dwellings on the sabbath day.

Moses said to all the congregation of the Israelites: This is the thing that the Lord has commanded: Take from among you an offering to the Lord; let whoever is of a generous heart bring the Lord’s offering: gold, silver, and bronze; blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine linen; goats’ hair, tanned rams’ skins, and fine leather;* acacia wood, oil for the light, spices for the anointing-oil and for the fragrant incense, and onyx stones and gems to be set in the ephod and the breastpiece.

All who are skilful among you shall come and make all that the Lord has commanded: the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its clasps and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; the ark with its poles, the mercy-seat,* and the curtain for the screen; the table with its poles and all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence; the lampstand also for the light, with its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light; and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the anointing-oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the entrance, the entrance of the tabernacle; the altar of burnt-offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the basin with its stand; the hangings of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court; the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, and their cords; the finely worked vestments for ministering in the holy place, the holy vestments for the priest Aaron, and the vestments of his sons, for their service as priests.

Then all the congregation of the Israelites withdrew from the presence of Moses. And they came, everyone whose heart was stirred, and everyone whose spirit was willing, and brought the Lord’s offering to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the sacred vestments.

Ask

1. Where have you seen God at work in details?
2. In the detailed plans for the construction of the Tabernacle the Israelites were given a travelling home for God, what did they have to do to adorn this tent with all the right fixtures?
3. What are the details you expect to see God in this Summer?
4. What are those details in your life that you still feel might be something other than God?!?

Move
Today, keep a list of little details in your pocket. These could be things you have to remember, items or ideas that will help you in your work this Summer, people's names, phone numbers. At the end of the day pray over that growing list of details, that God will bless them, and make God's self known through their completion.

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