So All the Work on the Tabernacle . . . Was Completed: The Long and Winding Road of Deliverance

PRAYER OF CONSECRATION Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.  Abba, I belong to you. I lift up my heart to you. I set my mind on you. I fix my eyes on you. I offer my body to you as a living sacrifice. Abba, we belong to you.  Praying in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, amen.  Exodus 39:32–43 So all the work on the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord commanded Moses. Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent and all its furnishings, its clasps, frames, crossbars, posts and bases; the covering of ram skins dyed red and the covering of another durable leather and the shielding curtain; the ark of the covenant law with its poles and the atonement cover; the table with all its articles and the bread of the Presence; the pure gold lampstand with its row of lamps and all its accessories, and the olive oil for the light; the gold altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense, and the curtain for the entrance to the tent; the bronze altar with its bronze grating, its poles and all its utensils; the basin with its stand; the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard; the ropes and tent pegs for the courtyard; all the furnishings for the tabernacle, the tent of meeting; and the woven garments worn for ministering in the sanctuary, both the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when serving as priests. The Israelites had done all the work just as the Lord had commanded Moses. Moses inspected the work and saw that they had done it just as the Lord had commanded. So Moses blessed them. CONSIDER THIS So, the Tabernacle that is the Wake-Up Call series on Exodus was completed. It has been long, winding, tiring, exhilarating, encouraging, and hopefully revelatory. Thank you for making the journey.  You will remember the first phrase of each day's entry is titled with a phrase from the Scripture text itself. I thought a nice way to begin closing out would be to share those titles from all the entries sequentially from first to last below. You will notice that each title is hyperlinked to the original post in case you want to dive back in for deeper reflection.  Many have asked if this series will be published in a book format. The answer is yes. Published under our Seedbed + Harper Collins-Zondervan partnership, it will become part of the Daily Seeds series. It will likely be 2026 before it releases.  I would like to thank our Wake-Up Call team, specifically Seedbed's Director of Resourcing (and my editor), Andrew Dragos, Director of Production Holly Jones, and Maren Kurek, who produces the daily podcast for the Wake-Up Call. They work tirelessly to keep this massive undertaking both on target and on track.  Without further ado, here are the seventy-five-ish linked entries composed of tens of thousands of words comprising the travelogue and itinerary of our four-month journey through Exodus.  If You See That the Baby Is a Boy, Kill Him: Plan B? She Hid Him for Three Months: Plan B vs. Plan C and the Fallacy of Lesser Evils So the Girl Went and Got the Baby’s Mother: The Way Back to Plan A—From Weak Resignation to Deep Surrender He Sat Down by a Well: How to Get from Wasteland Wandering to Wilderness Walking During That Long Period: On the Journey from Wasteland to Graceland The Far Side of the Wilderness: Between the Far Side of the Wilderness and the Mountain of God The Bush Was on Fire . . . It Did Not Burn Up Take Off Your Shoes . . . So Now, Go. Welcome to the Elder Awakening Who am I?: From Here I Am to Who Am I? I Will Be with You—The Word of All Words of God I AM WHO I AM—Welcome to Ontology 101 Now Go; I Will Help You: The Utter Sufficiency of God So He May Worship Me . . . The Movement from Penultimate to Ultimate Let My People Go! The Decree and the Deliverance I Am the Lord—Learning to Speak the Word of God I Will Harden Pharaoh's Heart—On Sovereignty, Freedom, and the Will of God Just as the Lord Had Said: What Does Real Repentance Look Like? The Lord Makes a Distinction: On Judgment and Mercy It Was a Night of Watching by the Lord: On Creating New Space for Prayer Commemorate This Day: Jesus Is My Passover So God Led the People Around by the Desert Road: When God Takes the Long Road By Day . . . in a Pillar of Cloud; and by Night in a Pillar of Fire: Nine Rules of the Road with God Tell the Israelites to Turn Back: We Need the Mind of Christ to Think the Thoughts of God All Pharaoh's Horses and Chariots, Horsemen and Troops: The (often) Protracted Battle of Divine Deliverance The Lord Will Fight For You: The Zero Sum Game of Fear and Faith  Raise Your Staff and Stretch Out Your Hand: A Wake-Up Call for Our Times The Cloud Brought Darkness to One Side and Light to the Other: The Call to Holy Imagination During the Last Watch of the Night: On Staying Awake in the Last Days Not One of Them Survived: How the Wrath of God Is the Love of God and Vice-Versa But the Israelites Walked: When the Red Sea Parts and When It Doesn't I Will Sing to the Lord: The Way Is Made by Worship The Desert of Shur: From the Win to the Wilderness What Are We to Drink? The Journey from Grumbling to Prayer I Am the Lord Who Heals You: On Health, the Human Body, and the Glory of God Twelve Springs and Seventy Palm Trees: How to Take a Real Rest The Whole Community Grumbled: The Wilderness Pivot from Feelings to Longings I Will Rain Down Bread from Heaven: The Wonder of the Wilderness You Are Not Grumbling Against Us, but Against the Lord: On the Foible of Relational Triangulation The Israelites Did as They Were Told: When Enough Is Truly Enough Some of Them Paid No Attention to Moses: Where Maggots Come From So the People Rested on the Seventh Day: Finding the Unforced Rhythms of Grace To Be Kept for the Generations to Come: Take That Science! But the People Were Thirsty: "I Thirst!" Is the Lord Among Us or Not?: From Ambivalence to Awakening As Long as Moses Held Up His Hands: Onward Christian Soldiers Moses Built an Altar: So Will I I, Your Father-in-Law Jethro, Am Coming to You: Monotheism in the Land of Polytheism The Work Is Too Heavy for You: Can You Receive Help? They Came to the Desert of Sinai: The Reason for It All Go to the People and Consecrate Them: The Holiness of God and Casual Religion Then Moses Led the People out of the Camp to Meet with God: The Only Thing that Will Have Mattered And God Spoke All These Words: On Delighting in the Law of God Remember the Sabbath Day: From Religious Observance to Relationship Revival Honor Your Father and Your Mother: Flipping the Honor Script You Shall Not: The Heart of the Matter They Trembled with Fear: On Fearing God without Being Afraid of God Make an Altar of Earth: Eight Learnings from the Wilderness So Far However, If It Is Not Done Intentionally: The Lord Is in the Details Little by Little I Will Drive Them Out: Learning the Landscape of Salvation and Deliverance We Will Do Everything the Lord Has Said: Paving the Road to Hell (and Heaven) You Are to Receive the Offering for Me: On the Difference between Fund-Raising and Fund-Receiving Make the Tabernacle with Ten Curtains: Why Those Curtains are to Die For! So I Will Consecrate: Waking Up to the Presence of God BEHOLD, I Have Chosen Bezalel: The Holiness of Art and Artists Moses Was so Long in Coming Down: When People Take Control And They Are a Stiff-Necked People: On Loving People Anyway Perhaps I Can Make Atonement for Your Sin: What Sin Really Is But I Will Not Go with You: The Seven Worst Words in the Bible Now Moses Used to Take a Tent: On Becoming a Tent of Meeting Because I Am Pleased with You and I Know You by Name: Moving from Resignation to Surrender Now Show Me Your Glory: The Journey from Hiding to Hiddenness The Lord, the Lord, the Compassionate and Gracious God: On the True Nature of the God of Heaven and Earth Moses Bowed to the Ground at Once and Worshiped: How Might God Experience Your Worship? Be Careful. . . Write Down These Words: It's All about Worship His Face Was Radiant: The Two Letters That Changed Everything So All the Work on the Tabernacle . . . Was completed: The Long and Winding Road of Deliverance The Glory of the Lord Filled the Tabernacle: Back to Plan A THE PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE Lord Jesus, you are my Deliverer. I receive your deliverance from my impatience, which wants deliverance to be the flipping of a switch. And I receive your deliverance into the patience of your transformational timeline. I receive your deliverance from my tendency to take the bull by the horns and try to achieve deliverance by my efforts. And I receive your deliverance into the capacity to receive deliverance from you according to your will and ways and by your Word and Spirit.  It will be for your glory, for others' gain, and for our good.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be. World without end, amen! Amen!