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Beauty In The Church
March 11, 2012

When my husband, Jay, and I decided to build a new house, we didn’t recruit friends and family who enjoy working with power tools; instead we hired a skilled builder to create something both functional and beautiful.

Beauty in the church building, however, is not always a high priority. Some associate it with impracticality, so anything ornate or decorative is considered wasteful. But that wasn’t God’s attitude when He established a place of worship for the ancient Israelites. He didn’t recruit just anybody to set up an ordinary tent. He appointed skilled craftsmen, Bezalel and Oholiab (Ex. 36:1), to decorate the tabernacle with finely-woven tapestries and intricately designed ornaments (37:17-20).

I think the beauty was important then because it reminded the people of the worth of God in their worship. During the dry and dusty days of desert wanderings, they needed a reminder of God’s majesty.

The beauty created by God’s people in worship settings today can serve the same purpose. We offer God our best talents because He is worthy. Beauty also gives us a glimpse of heaven and whets our appetites for what God is preparing for our future.

Read: Exodus 36:1-7

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Everything in the Tabernacle, represented important characteristics or were representative of other things: from the colors of the threads in the curtains to the placement of the table for the shewbreads, the golden candlestick, the oil, the incense, etc.,

Exodus 25;

Coming into the presence of Jehovah. Holy, holy, holy, a place of prayer and worship.

Now we find many come in scanty or careless, clothing, without a sense of reverence, and a humble spirit. The beauty is in the truth of the LORD and his love letters left for his people.

We are a society that has largely lost its wonder and awesome awareness of the majesty and magnificence and awesomeness of our LORD and his Son Jesus Christ who died to deliver us from our body of death from disobedience to His commands.

Forgive us Lord. We know not what we do.