stirred hearts move people

"Everyone whose heart stirred him..."
Exodus 35:21,26,29; 36:2

How were their hearts stirred? The text doesn't say specifically. They were stirred to participate in building this sanctuary that God might dwell in their midst. As the vision is shared, the revelation revealed to them, they were moved within to participate, to be a part of bringing about was God calling them to form that he might manifest his presence among them.

It does connect the stirring with Bezalel's being filled with the Spirit, and with the contributions, and with the people's skills and abilities. When we hear and see what God is doing our hearts line up with and move toward it, in fact it is his Spirit stirring in our hearts to participate, to contribute, to create and build.

God's Restoration Project at COTA is about a beautiful piece of land; it is about contributions and participation and creating and building buildings that will give places for the church to gather. It is about God's design and desire to dwell in our midst. To be "God with us" for the world around us.

Each one of us is a moveable tabernacle, as is the whole group together. God's presence is both within us and leading us onward with him. "And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, and brought the Lord's contribution..." (35:21) God stirs our hearts all the time, in order that we will move with him. Stirred hearts are to move more than the heart or the spirit, but the whole person and the whole assembly.