Today, I am reading and commenting on Exodus 36-38.

I have a Youtube video of me reading the Scripture passage and my comments. Please check it out and let me know your thoughts.

I am going to follow on from what I wrote about on the 28th.  The passage says that Moses called  Bezalel and Oholiab  and every craftsman in whose mind God had put the skill, whose heart was stirred to do the work.  I am not sure about this, but that reads to me like God put the skill into the mind of every craftsman whose heart was stirred to do the work.  If you already have some skill in a craft, and your heart leads you to want to do some work for the Lord, do not hesitate because you think your skill is insufficient.  God will gift you the additional skills.  This does not mean that He will give you the skills for a task which you have never done before.  If you have never done carpentry work, do not put yourself forward for a task which requires a master carpenter.  But if you are a skilled carpenter, but feel you fall well short of the skill level called for, step forward anyway.  Either God will grant you the skills you think you lack, or He will provide you with a mentor (such as Bezalel and Oholiab) who can make use of what skills you do have.  And then there were those who were not craftsmen.  They were also inspired to give as they were able.  This was not just those giving from their wealth.  This involved people producing thread and cloth for the project and preparing goat hides.  In fact, they gave so much that the craftsmen had to ask them to stop.  We should seek to have a similar desire to give to God’s works as the people of Israel did here.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.