Have you ever given (or received) a gift given out of obligation?
Gifts given from a sense of "I'm supposed to do this" are not fun for the giver or the receiver. There's no heart in them.
Like you and I, God likes to receive gifts given out of dedication. In this passage, a literal dedication (of the Tent of Meeting) was taking place. After the gifts were given according to His expectations, God showed up and talked with Moses.
Throughout the Bible, God celebrated people who gave gifts out of dedication--people like Jacob who built an altar to God, the wise men who honored Jesus after His birth, the widow who gave her last coins, and the woman who anointed Jesus with perfume before His death.
These givers gave different amounts. But they gave gifts not out of obligation, but dedication--out of LOVE.
Tomorrow: Numbers 8-10
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