Exo 31:16 The people of Israel are to keep this day as a sign of the covenant.
Exo 31:17 It is a permanent sign between the people of Israel and me, because I, the LORD, made heaven and earth in six days, and on the seventh day I stopped working and rested."
Exo 31:18 When God had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two stone tablets on which God himself had written the commandments.
I was reading these chapters of the exodus and just like the last verses I can’t make anything out of it. The chapters talked about building these and building that complete with specific measurements and rituals and priestly ornaments. But these traditions have served the people of God for so long but are they still useful and meaningful for Christians today?
But reading these chapters made me realize how God put order to the Israelites—through little things.
Maybe I can learn something from these chapters like making sure that little things are within Gods specifications like my Sunday school lesson plans, or my prayers, how I pray, who I pray, devotions etc. Little things that I take for granted little things like measurement of an altar, priestly garments, little things, those seemingly meaningless little things that if we add together becomes a tabernacle.
Weekly Bible Devotional
Jacob Wrestling with the ANGEL of GOD
And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob.
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
Genesis32:23-31
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