Hi kids! Earlier this year, there was a big snowstorm where I live. It shut down most of the city. I saw many cars on my street get stuck in the snow. Their tires were no match for the storm. Yet, when it seemed like those cars would never get moving again, something special happened: people from the neighbourhood came to help them. One person shovelled snow. Another person pushed the car. Someone else brought cardboard to put under the wheels. Soon, the cars were moving again. It’s amazing what can be done when we work together! Long ago, God wanted to have a place to be with His people, so He asked them to make Him a special tent. (His people, the Israelites, moved around a lot, so it didn’t make sense for them to make a permanent building.) It was a lot of work, but the Israelites made it happen by working together. It would have been impossible for one person to make the tent on their own. When we co-operate, we can do a lot more together than we can do alone. As the Bible says in Ecclesiastes 4:9, “Two people are better than one. They can help each other in everything they do.”
Your friend, Kristin
Building God’s House
Exodus 25, 39
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fter God’s people, the Israelites, left Egypt, they came to the Desert of Sinai. While in the desert, God gave Moses, their leader, many instructions. God wanted to live among His people, so He asked them to build Him a sacred tent. God told His people exactly how He wanted them to make the tent and everything in it. It was a huge project. Even though Moses was the leader, many other people helped out. Everyone had to work together to build God’s house. There were skilled craftsmen who did a lot of the work. Whole teams of men and women developed new skills and used them to build the special tent. Then there were all the people who brought supplies to God’s house. They brought things they owned or gathered and things they had made. And when the tent moved, there were tribes of people whose job was to pack up the tent, carry it and then set it up again.
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When the Israelites finished building the tent, Moses looked over their work carefully. He saw that they had made it just as God wanted, so Moses gave them his blessing.