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04/16/2025
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“I have called by name Bezalel ... and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship ...” (v2). The meeting tent, and later the temple, was the physical center of Israelite life, just as the Sabbath ordered their week (v12-17). God filled individuals with gifts “to devise artistic designs”, to cut gemstones, to carve wood, and to embroider materials, so that the objects of worship honored the Lord by their beauty.
“I have filled him with the Spirit of God” (v3). The Spirit now fills us to be God’s temple on earth – wherever we are. “Whatever” we do, we use our gifts and skills to work “heartily” and with excellence, for Jesus’ glory (Col 2:17,23).