No room for Error: Exodus 25-28 I love trying out new recipes. Depending on the complexity of it, it is tempting to want to add my spin on it. I am not a novice cook after all. After years of cooking trials and errors, I've picked up some things. Using your sense of smell and your instinct when adding spices; the perfect stroke angle when beating egg whites; the proportion of dry to wet ingredients when making cookies or a cake; the importance of that tiny pinch of salt or nutmeg- all this comes with experience. So a new recipe seems to call on my whit and wisdom in the kitchen. Sometimes, however, things get a little, lets say, wrong. What happened? I didn't follow the directions, exactly. In this passage God gives Moses direction for the building of the temple " that I may dwell among them". It excites me as I read the precision and the creativity of the temple's architecture. When you get past all the lines and measurements, the rearing of the tem...
"The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so you may obey it." Deut 30:14