Service: EXO 40:16-33
Exodus 40:16‑33 • 1 min. read • grade level: 4
EXO 40:16-3316Thus did Moses: according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he. 17And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up. 18And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars. 19And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the Lord commanded Moses. 20And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark: 21And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the Lord commanded Moses. 22And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail. 23And he set the bread in order upon it before the Lord; as the Lord had commanded Moses. 24And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward. 25And he lighted the lamps before the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses. 26And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail: 27And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the Lord commanded Moses. 28And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle. 29And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the Lord commanded Moses. 30And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal. 31And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat: 32When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the Lord commanded Moses. 33And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work. (Exodus 40:16‑33)
Thus did Moses: according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he. . . . So Moses finished the work.
Moses sets a great example here. He was given a work to do by the Lord and he did it until it was all finished. He didn’t get tired halfway through and give up. Nor did he jump off onto something else and leave the work incomplete. No! He did God’s bidding until completion. Let us too, following Moses’ example, complete the work the Lord has given us. The Lord Jesus finished the work that His Father gave Him to do. (If He hadn’t, there would be no heaven for us.) So let us not be weary in well doing but persevere until it’s all done.