Exodus and Tediousness

3/8/11…I just finished reading Exodus. I pray my Father may enlighten me if He wills. Minutes later, as I seek to ponder the words written in this book by Moses, I make note of the following themes;

            A cry out by the people of God and the birth of Moses
            The consuming plagues
            The subsequent exodus
            The creation of the Ten Commandments atop Mt. Sinai
            The building of the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant

The last theme peaks my interest. I realize half the book of Exodus describes the precise instructions regarding the building of the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant. This precision was so intense I found myself reading through these passages quickly because of the tediousness. But wait. Let me pause. Let me reflect on why the descriptions are so tedious. What I soon realize is a good portion of the tediousness is written by Moses and he is directly quoting Your words Father.

So what does this mean? What might You be saying Father? If I stop and take more than a moment to reflect, there is a great opportunity to learn more of who You are. After all, direct quotes attributed to You should cause me to pause and ask You humbly for deeper enlightenment. Oh, how exciting it is to have this opportunity. Indeed, how often do I really get this opportunity? So I start. I first ask myself what words come to my mind throughout Your exhaustive quotations in Exodus. These are the words coming into my mind, and I wonder if You are speaking to me;

            Exactness

            Attention to detail
            Consequences
            Artistic beauty
            Creating

As I ponder these words, I am struck by how these words not only apply to the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant, but also in how You created nature. “Exactness” is written all over your creation. Equally so is “attention to detail.” It is so clear how life and nature are so interwoven even down to the micro-organisms. I also marvel at how “consequences” seem to occur in nature when the laws are compromised. In a sense, adjustments occur in nature to bring back balance. There is an exactness here and an attention to detail that is indeed hard to deny. And furthermore Father, how can anyone deny the “artistic beauty” all around us from the smallest daisy by the roadside to the balds of Carver Gap? Artistic beauty surrounds us everywhere we look. Indeed I see beauty in my wife every day. Last of all, the word “creating” comes to mind. Of course. All around us creating is going on, day in and day out. Nature creates. Man creates. Creating is constantly occurring around our globe at every hour and every minute. It permeates us and it permeates nature everywhere. I feel I am understating the breadth of this revelation. Beyond our globe, I think of the universe. At any given second, there may not be a number to contain the amount of creating going on within God’s universe. It is constant.

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Now what does this say about me Father? Does this mean I was created in the same way; with exactness, with attention to detail, with consequences when I deviate from the path, with beauty, and with an innate sense to create?

Somehow the tediousness of Exodus does not seem so tedious anymore. Instead…the words seem so beautiful to me.