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Good morning!
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Shabbat shalom! It seems that this idea of setting up the Mishkan is unique for Moses. The text, in this week's Torah portion, Pekudei/accounting, actually emphasizes that it’s only Moses and nobody else could put it all together. Only Moses was able to do this (Ex. 40:1-16). Many people were involved in the furnishings, but when it gets to setting up/qum the Mishkan, it's all Moses, Moses, Moses, only moses. Each individual, with their willing heart, was essential, but only Moses could raise up/qum the Tabernacle (Deut. 18:15).
How and why would God grant them the ability, with the Spirit, to do all this amazing work, but they couldn't build it (Psa. 127:1)?
"A Song of ascents of Solomon: Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain." (Psa. 127:1)
Oddly enough, the people didn't know what to do once they finished their respective parts. I think the first thing we need to realize is that every single person was doing something. Like the individual parts of the body of Christ, each one was their own boss. They knew how to build their part. Everyone knows how to do their own job/paqad. There’s someone who has a certain talent with doing one thing, another has a talent for doing the other and each one is a skilled laborer, and they put all of their heart and soul into it, but what none of us can do is, is build the Tabernacle (1 Cor. 12:20-31).
God didn't give us the ability of seeing someone else’s part, exactly how He designed it...a good reminder to me not to act as though I do! Or...how we know best, or think we know best, about our perspective about how things should be about what we know, and what we need to do and we should...what's difficult for many of us, speaking of me, myself and I, is micromanaging all the others doing their part.
Maybe we could see someone else's work. Maybe we could respect someone else because of their diligent heavenly patterned work. But, to actually see how someone else’s part, who’s different from mine, does things differently than me, actually comes together into one whole. It's amazing! That’s something that each side can’t see. Even if they respect the other side, that's where we need the One who is like unto Moses (Deut. 18:15), Yeshua, Who is able to see how contradicting things in the world, different things, different sides of things, actually come together into one harmony.
Moses wasn't involved in the building of all these structures, but through humility and Spirit-led leadership was able to take all the pieces and make Yahweh a place to dwell (Ex. 25:8,9). His part is being able to see that full picture and how all the pieces come together and create a whole.
There is so much more to this moment in time. Simply put, what Moses is doing when he sees all the pieces produced, according to the pattern in heaven, he blesses them. When he sees they did what they were supposed to do and they all come together...then he's able to make the Mishkan stand up/qum on his own feet; The Mishkan stands on its own. It doesn't need me to prop it up. The completed structure is not dependent on me, I'm dependent on Him (Jn. 1:14). We’re supposed to be depending on it. It’s supposed to be bigger than us. It is and it will be.
The $64 million question is, 'how could we create something that’s bigger than ourselves? We create something bigger than us when each of us does our part!
I don't understand a lot of things in this life! But, one thing I do understand: I have a part of the whole and it's my responsibility to make sure that my 'end product' matches the heavenly pattern (Matt. 6:10). How about you? Are you doing your part for the sake of the whole? Or is your inactivity creating a hole?
Chazak, Chazak, v'nitchazek/be strong, be strong and be strengthened!
Shabbat shalom!
Passover's coming...prepare, prepare, prepare :-)
Shabbat shalom! It seems that this idea of setting up the Mishkan is unique for Moses. The text, in this week's Torah portion, Pekudei/accounting, actually emphasizes that it’s only Moses and nobody else could put it all together. Only Moses was able to do this (Ex. 40:1-16). Many people were involved in the furnishings, but when it gets to setting up/qum the Mishkan, it's all Moses, Moses, Moses, only moses. Each individual, with their willing heart, was essential, but only Moses could raise up/qum the Tabernacle (Deut. 18:15).
How and why would God grant them the ability, with the Spirit, to do all this amazing work, but they couldn't build it (Psa. 127:1)?
"A Song of ascents of Solomon: Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain." (Psa. 127:1)
Oddly enough, the people didn't know what to do once they finished their respective parts. I think the first thing we need to realize is that every single person was doing something. Like the individual parts of the body of Christ, each one was their own boss. They knew how to build their part. Everyone knows how to do their own job/paqad. There’s someone who has a certain talent with doing one thing, another has a talent for doing the other and each one is a skilled laborer, and they put all of their heart and soul into it, but what none of us can do is, is build the Tabernacle (1 Cor. 12:20-31).
God didn't give us the ability of seeing someone else’s part, exactly how He designed it...a good reminder to me not to act as though I do! Or...how we know best, or think we know best, about our perspective about how things should be about what we know, and what we need to do and we should...what's difficult for many of us, speaking of me, myself and I, is micromanaging all the others doing their part.
Maybe we could see someone else's work. Maybe we could respect someone else because of their diligent heavenly patterned work. But, to actually see how someone else’s part, who’s different from mine, does things differently than me, actually comes together into one whole. It's amazing! That’s something that each side can’t see. Even if they respect the other side, that's where we need the One who is like unto Moses (Deut. 18:15), Yeshua, Who is able to see how contradicting things in the world, different things, different sides of things, actually come together into one harmony.
Moses wasn't involved in the building of all these structures, but through humility and Spirit-led leadership was able to take all the pieces and make Yahweh a place to dwell (Ex. 25:8,9). His part is being able to see that full picture and how all the pieces come together and create a whole.
There is so much more to this moment in time. Simply put, what Moses is doing when he sees all the pieces produced, according to the pattern in heaven, he blesses them. When he sees they did what they were supposed to do and they all come together...then he's able to make the Mishkan stand up/qum on his own feet; The Mishkan stands on its own. It doesn't need me to prop it up. The completed structure is not dependent on me, I'm dependent on Him (Jn. 1:14). We’re supposed to be depending on it. It’s supposed to be bigger than us. It is and it will be.
The $64 million question is, 'how could we create something that’s bigger than ourselves? We create something bigger than us when each of us does our part!
I don't understand a lot of things in this life! But, one thing I do understand: I have a part of the whole and it's my responsibility to make sure that my 'end product' matches the heavenly pattern (Matt. 6:10). How about you? Are you doing your part for the sake of the whole? Or is your inactivity creating a hole?
Chazak, Chazak, v'nitchazek/be strong, be strong and be strengthened!
Shabbat shalom!
Passover's coming...prepare, prepare, prepare :-)
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