But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Hebrew 11:6
The Bible passage I’m starting with reveals the way everyone can please God. No man can please him without having faith in him. More so, faith without work is dead. That implies, every Christian must please God through the work which corresponds with his or her faith.
You can’t claim you have huge faith and work shabbily for God. In fact, he rewards only those that diligently seek him.
God loves people who work for him by taking cognizance of the things he likes and dislikes. Working to please him without taking notes of his dislikes will amount to no reward.
Without much ado, God hates wastage. He hates to see things being wasted. In the miracle of the multiplication of food, Jesus told his disciples to pack up the fragments left overs as if there was need for the remnants. All he wanted to teach them was the act of preventing wastage.
Several centuries back to the old testament, God instructed Moses to make a brazen altar — that is the altar made of wood plated with bronze. In fact, not just the altar was made of bronze, every utensils for the altar was made with bronze.
“You shall make an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide—the altar shall be square—and its height shall be three cubits. 2 You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with bronze. 3 Also you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze. 4 You shall make a grate for it, a network of bronze; and on the network you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners. 5 You shall put it under the rim of the altar beneath, that the network may be midway up the altar. 6 And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. 7 The poles shall be put in the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar to bear it. 8 You shall make it hollow with boards; (C)as it was shown you on the mountain, so shall they make it.
Exodus 27:1-8 nkjv
In some Bible versions, the bronze was translated as brass. Actually, the two materials are alloy. That is, they are made up of two elements. Both of them contain copper which makes them resistant to fire.
Mind you, God was not just concerned about his things getting burnt, he was after his things from getting rusted. He was more concerned about rust than any other thing. Once anything gets rusted, it amounts to nothing but waste. Remember, he dislikes wastage.
So, to prevent rust from wasting things, he instructed Moses to make the altar and every tool for the altar with bronze b cause bronze doesn't get rust as it contains no iron.
At a point when Jehovah sent fiery serpent to kill the children of Israel for insulting him, Moses was instructed to make a serpent on a wood so that anyone who looked at it could live after being bitten by the serpent.
Notably, God didn’t mention the material the serpent, which would be hung on the wood, would be made of in Numbers 21. Surprisingly, Moses used that same alloy called Bronze, which some Bible translations called Brass. Doing so pleased the Almighty.
In addition, the three Choirmasters — Heman, Asaph & Ethan — in the Bible chose only the musical instrument made of Bronze out of all musical instruments in the Bible days. It was not because they were instructed to, but they found it as the best way to please the ancient of days: Using the materials that do not get rust to work for Jehovah…there is nothing as pleasing as working out our faith by using the things that he likes.
Lastly, King Solomon built the first temple in the Bible with unimaginable amounts of materials. So many of the materials he implored were mentioned in amount. However, the amount of Bronze — that same material that doesn’t get burnt or rusted — he used were too much that they couldn’t take note of the amount they had (1 kings 7:47).
Also, all the wood he used in the temple were overlaid with gold, including the floor of the temple (1 kings 6:30) — just like Moses overlaid the Brazen wooden altar with Bronze. Apart from Bronze and Brass, Gold,too ,cannot be burnt in fire; it can’t also get rusted.
In conclusion, Jesus told them in Matthew 6:19, don’t lay up treasures on Earth where moth or rust corrupt and thief steal. Meaning, Jesus was more concerned about materials getting rusted than thieves stealing them. In other words, don’t please God by working out your faith with things that corrupt, instead please God with things incorruptible like the way Moses did with Bronze, the three Choirmasters did with Bronze, as well, and Solomon did with Gold and Bronze. STOP GIVING GOD INFERIOR THINGS.
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