Enough

Exodus 36 describes a time when the people were building the Sanctuary for worshiping their God. They were all bringing a bountiful offering for this construction project. Verses 4-7 (MSG) states:

All the artisans who were at work making everything involved in constructing

the Sanctuary came, one after another, to Moses, saying,

"The people are bringing more than enough

for doing this work that God commanded us to do!"

So Moses sent out orders through the camp:

"Men! Women! No more offerings for the building of the Sanctuary!"

The people were ordered to stop bringing offerings!

There was plenty of material for all the work to be done.

Enough and more than enough.

These were the same people who had a habit of complaining to God about their circumstances. They had conveniently short memories forgetting the miserable existence in Egypt from which God had delivered them not many moons hence. Yet this is one time when they pitched in with a passion that was so great that Moses put a halt to their generosity. Enough!

Some generations later God was to make one of the greatest of his precious promises to descendants of these same people. It seems they were robbing God by not bringing the whole tithe as commanded. Malachi 3:10 (NIV) states:

"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse,

that there may be food in my house.

Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty,

"and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven

and pour out so much blessing

that there will not be room enough to store it."

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I really am inspired by the way The Message renders that last part: Test me in this and see if I don't open up heaven itself to you and pour out blessings beyond your wildest dreams. Can you dream big about God's blessings. Imagine those blessings being BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS! Wow!