They made the bronze basin and it’s bronze stand from the mirrors of the woman who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Exodus 38:8
In the middle of the wilderness, building a beautiful tabernacle, God used broken pieces to cleanse the hands, feet, and heart of his people.
Tucked in between making walls and designing robes, God calls the women to bring together their mirrors. The things women used to judge their own beauty, to compare themselves against others, to make themselves more beautiful, to dissect their flaws, and fix their blemishes. God used the most vain tool of a woman, broken apart and put back to together, as a washing basin for the hands and feet of those coming into the tabernacle to worship Him.
It’s just as though God is saying, you can’t keep throwing stones at yourself and others if you’re washing the feet of your neighbor. You can’t judge what I made good if you’re using what I made for the good of others.
We so easily look in a mirror and begin to nitpick ourselves, looking at our past and our present and shaming ourselves or judging what we see. But not only do we do this to ourselves but we also do this to other people. Judging their past and the present and not seeing who God created them to be.
When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “let any of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.“
John 8:7
God wants us to put down our mirrors and bend down to wash our hands in his cleansing water to see his reflection in us. Better yet, he wants us to bend even lower and wash the feet of the one we would usually judge; to stop looking for their flaws but instead look to be like Jesus to them.
So, why not take our mirrors, like the Israelite women, and use them for good, to cleanse the hands and feet and hearts of those God places around us?! We can do this by encouraging ourselves and others to see the good God created us to be.
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