Note, God’s work must be done, in every thing, according to his own will. His institutions neither need nor admit men’s inventions to make them either more beautiful or more likely to answer the intention of them. Add thou not unto his words. God is pleased with willing worship, but not with will-worship.III. They brought all their work to Moses, and submitted it to his inspection and censure, v. 33. He knew what he had ordered them to make; and now the particulars were called over, and all produced, that Moses might see both that they had made all, omitting nothing, and that they had made all according to the instructions given them, and that, if they had made a mistake in any thing, it might be forthwith rectified. Thus they showed respect to Moses, who was set over them in the Lord; not objecting that Moses did not understand such work, and therefore that there was no reason for submitting it to his judgment. No, that God who gave them so much knowledge as to do the work gave them also so much humility as to be willing to have it examined and compared with the model. Moses was in authority, and they would pay a deference to his place.I think what we get from Chapters 38-39 and some of those before in Exodus, is that we must do things the way God says to do them. Just because we like and take pride in what we do as laborers does not mean that because it accomplishes the same goal, that it was done the right way. In worshipping God, its not just the end result, it is, in deed, the means to the end that matters.
The Psalm seems to reiterate this, and again, I can hear a hymn as I read it.
Well, today was a short reading. See you tomorrow.
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