Precise Details

            I dabbled in painting in one period of my life. This was not the paining of rooms in a house but actually on a piece of canvas with either oil colors or acrylics. I would be classed somewhere as a primitive painter or perhaps even “crude” as there was not a lot of detail in the painting. A round green ball with a brown stem would be a tree. Smaller balls of different colors would turn out to be flowers of some unidentified type. One of our grandchildren painted a picture which is the home screen for my computer. It is a tree at the beach. The detail in the sky and the tree or so precise, it looks like a photograph. The tree has hundreds of leaves on it and they are all the right size and full of detail. At one point, there is a yellow leaf as you might find in a real living tree. The horizon is straight, the water looks like the ocean and the sky is just as you would see it on a day looking off the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. I guess I could say that he is a stickler for detail. It is important to have detail in some areas to give the viewer or the reader a picture of what is to come. One could say that God is a stickler for detail. Revelation 21:15-16 says, “And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.”

       When God gives instructions they contain a lot of detail such as when Moses got the instructions on how to build the tabernacle. Every board and socket were described along with the exact type of material that was to be used in the process of construction. The Book of Revelation is a book of detail as far as our final destination is concerned. The Apostle John received the words that described many pictures that are completely new to us. The above passage gives us a glimpse of the New Jerusalem. The size is greater than we could ever imagine in our own minds. A modern day comparison would make each side, 12,000 furlongs, or 1500 miles long. That is roughly the distance from New York City to Daytona, Florida. That's just one side and then it goes that far on each of the other sides as well as the height. Yes, God is a stickler for detail and He has given us a picture of what is to come and goes on further to describe just who is going to be there with Him. Revelation 21:27 ends with the words that describe the inhabitants, “...they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.” The final question for us is whether or not our names are written in the Lamb's book of life. Have you believed on Him as your Lord and Savior? Praise God today for what in store for believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.