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God Can Use Common Skills, July 18
And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the Lord hath called
by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
and he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in
understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.
Exodus 35:30, 31
.
Skill in the common arts is a gift from God. He provides both the gift and
wisdom to use the gift aright. When He desired a work done on the tabernacle,
He said, “See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur,
of the tribe of Judah: and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom,
and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship”
(
Exodus 31:2, 3
). Through the prophet Isaiah the Lord said, “Give ye ear, and
hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. Doth the plowman plow all day
to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
“When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad
the fitches, and scatter the cumin, and cast in the principal wheat and the
appointed barley and the rie in their place? For his God doth instruct him
to discretion, and doth teach him. For the fitches are not threshed with a
threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cumin;
but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cumin with a rod. Bread
corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the
wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen. This also cometh forth from
the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working”
(
Isaiah 28:23-29
).
God dispenses His gifts as it pleases Him. He bestows one gift upon one,
and another gift upon another, but all for the good of the whole body. It is in
God’s order that some shall be of service in one line of work, and others in
other lines—all working under the selfsame Spirit. The recognition of this
plan will be a safeguard against emulation, pride, envy, or contempt of one
another. It will strengthen unity and mutual love.—
Counsels to Parents and
Teachers, 314, 315
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