Exodus 31

Exodus 31:1-18

Wise Workmen for the Tabernacle Exodus 31:1-18 Whenever there is special work to be done God will find and endow the men who are to do it. “ I have called,… I have filled,… I have appointed,” etc. There is a niche for each of us in God’ s service, to each a special work is given; and for each those talents are imparted, which are requisite and adequate. “ Created unto good works,” says the Apostle, “ which God has before prepared that we should walk in them,” Ephesians 2:10. The talent for the sphere and the sphere for the talent-God’ s call binding the two with golden clasps. But amid all our work for God there should be Sabbath-keeping-i.e., the inner rest of the soul. We are by nature full of our own works and schemes and plans; but when the spirit of rest enters us, all this is altered. Then we are not agents, but instruments; we do not work for God, but God works through us; we enter into His rest, and cease from ourselves. See Hebrews 4:10.