Exodus 28:1–5
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that is deeply suspicious of uniforms, of vestments, of any kind of external form that claims to represent an internal reality. Our modern sensibilities prize a kind of formless authenticity. We want our leaders in jeans, our worship leaders in artfully distressed t-shirts, and our churches to look more like coffee shops than cathedrals. The operating assumption is that true spirituality is a purely internal affair, and that any concern for outward appearance is, at best, a distraction and, at worst, rank hypocrisy. Sincerity has become the only virtue, and it is a sincerity that must always appear casual, spontaneous, and unadorned. Into this drab, gray, and self-consciously unadorned world, Exodus 28 lands like a thunderclap of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet. God, having given Moses the pattern for His dwelling place, the tabernacle, now turns His attention to the men who will serve within it.