Accounting in God’s Economy

As the children of Israel completed the building of the Tabernacle, Moses ordered an accounting of all the donations. He did not do so because he suspected some misappropriation or malfeasance. He already knew that all the contributions had been handled with the utmost integrity. But he also knew that his reputation in handling money reflected directly on God. He had to make the audit in order to publicly demonstrate that everything he had been done with complete honesty later in his life, Moses was able to declare “I have not taken a single donkey from them” (Numbers 16:15).