When did Bezalel, Oholiab, and the other skilled craftspeople understand how God had blessed them with their abilities? Or that God was going to use them in such an incredible act of worship to Him? Was it only when Moses called on them to begin working on the tabernacle, or was it before?

Even though we do not have the answer to this question in Scripture, we must wonder whether Bezalel and Oholiab ever thought they didn’t have much to offer God before the tabernacle. Did they see the ways they were gifted as fairly useless? They weren’t great leaders like Moses. They weren’t priests like Aaron. They may not have even been warriors. They were just artisans.

If they ever had these thoughts and feelings, that must have changed the day Moses called on them to work on the tabernacle. In that one moment, they connected what they deemed the sacred and the secular, only to learn that such a division is unwarranted. All we do is for God’s glory as acts of worship. Apart from sin, it is all sacred.

• In what “ordinary” ways has God gifted you? How have you, or can you, use these in service to Him?