I can do it al by myself!...or can I?

So all the work on the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD commanded Moses. Exodus 39:32


So, I have been reading though through the Bible in a year with my church family at Compass Bible Church and we just finished Exodus today! I must admit it was difficult to get through and I just could not understand why I couldn't focus and wasn't learning anything, sometimes I felt as though I was wasting my time...and I was.

There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place."
In spite of this, you did not trust in the LORD your God, who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go. Deuteronomy 1:31-33

Recently, I was talking to a wonderful, godly friend of mine and she turned and asked me, "What does it truly mean to be saved and how do you know that you are?" I answered "Through repentance and faith, right?" She replied, "Yes that how we are called to respond to the gospel but how do you know if you or someone else is saved?....It's a transfer of trust, from yourself to God, with your entire life." This really made me think and I was especially convicted when she said "I mean even when I go to have my Bible reading time I go and think 'Well I'm a big girl I know how to read.'" But we both agreed this was foolishness, how can we understand God's word, if we are not even asking Him for that understanding?? We cannot trust in ourselves to do anything without God.

Sure the Israelites finished the work of the temple with the work of their hands, but how, because God had not only given them the most clearest set of instructions but He also gave individual people within the camp specific skills to do the work (Exodus 28:3). After reading today I realized, I did nothing in the work done on the cross except give Christ that pain through sinning and yet God being so loving chose me to restore that relationship with me broken in Eden. And I don't have to wait once a year to enter into His presence I can do it anytime, any place. Now that I went off on a tangent let me get back and finish, because we can only trust in God for salvation, we can only trust in Him with our lives, every last detail, just like the temple work.