Digging for Gold in a Chalk Mine (Regarding the Measurements of the Tabernacle)

As many of us read through the "boring parts" of the Books of the Law, we are left wondering, "Should I skip this? Is this really necessary for me  - a New Testament believer?"

It's a valid question. Moses goes on and on and on about measurements that seem to have nothing to do with a twenty-first century Earth citizen. After all, what are we supposed to glean from the tabernacle measurements?

Perhaps, we are completely missing the point. We are digging for gold in a chalk mine.

Followers of the Way are not bound to the Old Testament way of worship. We do not have to enter the Tabernacle of God, frozen with terror that we may be slain for our sins.

The Law should not be boring. It can't be boring.

The psalmist of Psalm 119:97 declared, "Oh, how I love Your law!" It was his "meditation all the day."

"But he was under the law," you might say. "Why should I rejoice for something I am not under?"

The answer is simple. We should rejoice over the Law because we are NOT under it.

We rejoice, because as we read chapter after chapter regarding the measurements of a house for God, we remember the child born in the manger. who made all of Earth His home, and after his death and resurrection, made the human heart His home.

No more must we gather fine woven linen and blue yarn and gold and badger skins. We need not measure the tabernacle of The Lord, for its measurements are that of our hearts.