Ezekiel 43

“Son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances, and perform them." vv.11-12 

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This temple that is chapter describes does not have the same measurements as what the one Solomon built.  This temple is measurements of the temple that will be in the future, when God will dwell among the house of Israel forever (v.7).  When Ezekiel is to describe to Israel the temple it will cause them to be ashamed of their iniquities.  They will realized the perfect pattern of God's design and how they didn't "stay in the lines" of His drawing, not just in building God's house and how they had defiled it but in all matters of God's decrees.  Ezekiel is to write down all the temple's measurements that they may keep it as a reference when and question or doubt come up.  This wasn't the whole Bible that he wrote down for them but the exact measurements of the temple.  I'm no carpenter but have good friends who are and if something is 1/16th of an inch off it can mess up the whole fitting.  Or a friend who's a artist that if one brush stroke is not how she wanted it, she starts all over again with a new canvas.  
How have you drawn outside the lines of God's plan for you and seen the need for God's pattern over your own?