Seize the Moment – Day 514
Build up the Next Generation!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, August 13.
What is the most important legacy we leave behind from our ministry efforts?
Exodus 38 continues to tell the story of the completion of the tabernacle and all its furniture and all that it took to pull off this major construction project. Building campaigns are significant undertakings and important to the community of God’s people, but do you know what is more important?
Building up the next generation! Listen to Exodus 38:21-23 make a subtle, but very important observation of the ministry of God’s people:
This is the number of the things for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were numbered according to the command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. Now Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the Lord had commanded Moses. With him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a skillful workman and a weaver in blue and in purple and in scarlet material, and fine linen.
- Ithamar was the son of Aaron the priest, who worked with Moses in the deliverance and rescue of God’s people.
- Bezalel was the son of Uri, the son of Hur, who held up Moses’ arms as he held up the staff of God.
- Oholiab was the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, one of the twelve sons of Israel.
Whether you are conducting a major construction project, hosting a church picnic, or serving the local community be sure to do it in such a way as to build up the next generation.
Seize the moment and invite the next generation to partner with you in whatever ministry task you are called to do. May all that we do equip the next generation to live for Jesus.