Day 7: 90-Day Bible Challenge

Day 7: 90-Day Bible Challenge

Today’s reading:
Exodus 29:1-40:39

A thought or two:
In today’s reading there is a passage about a man named Bezalel son of Uri, who is the first person the Bible says was filled with the Spirit of God. Normally when we think of people being filled with Spirit of God we think of it in terms someone being empowered for a preaching or healing ministry, but this is why the Bible says that the Spirit of God filled Bezalel son of Uri, “to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of craftsmanship.”

These are not things we normally think of when we think of the Spirit of God filling someone. These are things we tend to view as more secular and less sacred, however this isn’t what God said about his skilld. Bezalel son of Uri took his skills that could have been just simply a secular trade and put them to use for God’s purposes. His skills applied to a Kingdom purpose accomplished a task that could not have been accomplished for the people of God if Bezalel son of Uri had not employed his skills into the service of God.

Often times in our church culture we have made “professional ministry”, “preaching” and “pastoring” the pinnacle of serving God, and it is the pinnacle if that is what you are called to do. However if that is not God’s calling on your life, striving for those things is merely a distraction in accomplishing God’s goal for your life! You may not be a pastor, but you have as much of a calling and a purpose as anyone with a Reverend in front of their name. Take the skills God has blessed you with and find a way to leverage them to serve his purposes! God wired you a certain way for a reason and it wasn’t just to make a living. God made you to live a life leveraged for His purposes, to see His will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven

Tomorrow’s reading:
Leviticus 1:1-Leviticus 14:32