Day 44 – The language of the Altar
The Language of the Altar Most people slow down when they reach Leviticus. The laws, the offerings, the measurements, the rituals it can feel like stepping from a river into sand. But if you read Leviticus knowing what it is, it becomes one of the most tender books in the Bible. The Language of the […]
Day 43 – The Glory Filled the House
The Glory Filled the House Everything is finished. The last clasp is fastened. The last golden bell is hung on the hem of Aaron’s robe. The last cubit of linen is stretched and the last peg is driven. Nine months of work since the instructions were given on the mountain. Bezalel and Oholiab and every […]
Day 42- More than Enough
More than Enough Something extraordinary happens in Exodus 36 before a single beam is raised or a curtain is hung. Moses sends a message through the camp: no one man or woman is to make anything more as an offering for the sanctuary. Because the people were bringing more than enough for all the work […]
Day 41 – Show Me Your Glory
Show me your Glory The golden calf has been destroyed. The ringleaders have been executed. The covenant is in pieces on the ground c literally. Moses smashed the tablets when he came down the mountain and saw what the people had done. And now God says to Moses: go up to the land I swore […]
Day 40 – The God they made themselves
The God they made themselves Forty days. Moses has been on the mountain for forty days receiving the most detailed, sacred architectural instructions in human history. Below him, a nation is camped. The mountain is still smoking. The covenant is less than six weeks old. The blood of the covenant still fresh in their memory. […]
Day 39 – Dressed in Glory, Carrying Names
Dressed in Glory Carrying Names Before the first word of Genesis was ever written, before ink touched parchment, before Moses sat down in the wilderness to record what God had shown him – you were already in the mind of God Before You Were, He Was. Before the first word of Genesis was ever written, […]
Day 38 – Make me a dwelling place
Make me a dwelling place Moses has been on the mountain forty days. God is giving him detailed instructions for something that has never existed before: a portable sanctuary, a structure specifically designed for God to dwell among His people as they travel through the wilderness. Every measurement, every material, every colour is specified. Nothing […]
Day 37 – Sealed with Blood
Sealed with Blood The laws continue in chapters 22 and 23 — dozens of specific cases, each one a window into what God’s justice looks like when it touches the ground of real life. Restitution for stolen oxen. Care for a borrowed animal that gets hurt. The rights of a woman who has been taken […]
Day 36 – The Ten Word
The Ten Words Three months after leaving Egypt, the Israelites arrive at Sinai. The mountain where Moses saw the burning bush. The mountain God named as the place where He would be worshipped. They have come full circle from the burning bush where God called one man, to the thundering mountain where He speaks to […]
Day 35 – Bread from Heaven and Arms that tire
Bread from Heaven and Arms that Tire Three days after the song on the far shore of the sea, the Israelites are complaining. Three days. The miracle that split an ocean and drowned an army is three days old, and the people are hungry, and the memory of Egypt is already starting to look romantic. […]
