Something that saddens me no end, is how speakers, writers, preachers and so-called life coaches try to get by without in-depth knowledge and with just superficial rhetoric. Either it’s because of lack of facts, spreading ourselves thin with engagements or relying too much on voice and delivery to fool audiences and participants.
As I study the scriptures, I find that God to the contrary is a God of detail. Just look at the way He explains the physical features of the Tabernacle, in which He wants the traveling Israelites to worship Him in. “Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim woven into it by a skilled worker. Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.
“Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by a skilled worker. All the curtains are to be the same size—twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide. Join five of the curtains together, and do the same with the other five. Make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and do the same with the end curtain in the other set. Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other.’
And that’s just the beginning, as God gives detailed and precise instructions of every square inch and cubic feet of the tabernacle.
Study how He does not leave the coming of Jesus to chance, but there are actually 574 verses in the Old Testament that somehow point to or describe or reference the coming Messiah. And all the prophecies were fulfilled, why? So that you and I can know without a shadow of a doubt who Jesus is.
And then let’s look at the boring genealogy or the ‘begats’ that line both the Old and New Testament, showing a very thorough God, painstakingly fitting each Biblical character into his historical slot to give absolute authenticity and legitimacy to the events.
How do you and I preach or teach or speak? Do we cut and paste sermons, use voice and fancy gestures, or do we who have been made in the image of God, use those same powers to dig deep, think deep and construct fortified unbeatable talk or articles?
God loved colour too, “Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim woven into it by a skilled worker. Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.’
Start creating powerful talk, far reaching, exhaustive and comprehensive writing, with precise details, all founded on well researched facts.
And don’t forget, the blue, the purple, the scarlet and gold; colours that enrichen the words you say or write…!
