God Will Make Something Special Out of You

by Barbara Chadwick

Exodus 24:18; 25:10-15

Moses was on Mt. Sinai with God forty days and forty nights. I wonderwhat that was like? Oh the wonder of it all. Awesome!

God told Moses to make a chest. The people were to bring offerings ofgold, silver, etc. to use in making this chest that was to besomething very special, the Ark of the Covenant.

Now, some, maybe all, of this gold and silver and so on had come fromthe Egyptians. Isn't that interesting?

God is going to make something special for His people, His chosenones and He asks them to bring the stuff the Egyptians had just giventhem before they left Egypt. He's going to make something Holy andHe's going to use not new gold and not gold held only by pure hands.

Isn't that just like God? He takes us human beings - not pure butvery common and blemished and wraps us with His cloak ofrighteousness, made possible by Jesus death on the cross; then Hedraws us to Himself in fellowship.

Awesome!