The Feed Mill

Today’s Bible Reading: Exodus 38-40

Today’s Devotional: Exodus 38:8

The amount and weight of the brass that was offered freely by the children of Israel we see later accounted for in Exodus 38:29-31, the washbasin or laver is not accounted for in that list.

This washbasin is recorded that it was fashioned from the bronze offered by the women of the children of Israel, who worshiped the Lord at the entrance of the Tabernacle. And that the bronze came from the polished metal mirrors of the women’s personal possessions.

The brass of these mirrors was set apart for the Lord and shaped into the laver, where the priests washed so that they could approach the altar or enter the Tabernacle. Mirrors would have been among the most precious possessions of women, and would have been associated with their personal beauty. In Egypt they would have been used by women for acts of worship. Here the women of the children of Israel gave to the Lord what would have been used for their outward appearance and further used by Egyptian women in their acts of worship. These women’s, just as the children of Israel as a whole, outward sign of the inward grace of devotion to the will of God in their offering realized their true beauty came from a life found in true worship to the Lord.

The priest then washed in this washbasin which was fashioned from this bronze, it was from this washing which the beauty of their worship was seen in the surrender of their flesh to the will of God in their life; the service towards the children of Israel for the forgiveness of their sins and fellowship with God.

The best of who we are is found in our life dedicated and shaped by the Lord for His service. And that service accompanied by the washing away of our personal desires and accepting God’s desires for our lives. You may be saying that God can never do anything or use any part of your life for His eternal plan, but just as God takes the bronze of this world, He redeems and gives a new identity to our years which we may believe are lost and shapes our lives to be a basin which he desires to fill with the fresh water of the Holy Spirit and that water to run over into our lives as we walk in the closeness and relationship with Him in His Word.