Today I read Exodus 25 where the Lord gives Moses instructions on how to build the ark of the covenant and several other items too. It is interesting to me that everything the Lord asked Moses to build for Him was to be either entirely made out of, or at least accented in gold. At first I wondered why that would be, but I think it was a preservation technique. Wood will eventually rot and become as crumbly as old paper. But metal, gold, is forever. The Lord does not care about money, He created the world and can create more precious metals and stones if He needed them. When He tells one of His servants to make something in gold, it is a matter of preservation.
I am reminded of the gold plates that the Book of Mormon was written on. It was done this way to preserve them and it was written on gold because gold is a soft metal and the prophets were able to write in it with not too terribly much pressure. But the fact that it was gold made them very tempting to everyone, even Joseph Smith at first had a fleeting moment when he saw them for the first time at how much gold was there. It's human nature. I wonder if that is not another reason that the Lord uses gold? To help His servants grow and force them to overcome the natural greedy man and focus instead on the things of the Lord. At least that is my thought on why He always wants them to use gold. Until tomorrow.
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