1 Kings 5 & 6; 2 Chronicles 2 & 3

Sunday

These chapters tell us about a great building project. – The building of the Temple. Building for me seems like such a rewarding experience, hard work, but rewarding in the end (if all goes well)..

Brad and I have done a few building projects over the years, remodeling, building a camp with some dear friends, renovating. So I am no stranger to building, but I also know that with building something, comes a multitude of problems, and headaches and backaches. But in the end it seems so worth it, to witness the results. I am pretty sure that Solomon (although I would guess was not physically involved with the project) never the less put his heart and soul into doing it right. This was to be the dwelling place for God. Is there any other building project that is more important? I can’t even begin to imagine how majestic this temple must have been to the people. Just reading some of the logistics of completing it, seem mind boggling. But when one is building for the Lord, shouldn’t we put every available resource into it? So I started thinking about the importance of building a temple. We here in Youngsville, (I say we – but it actually happened mostly before I got here) built a church, all to the glory of God. Everything that was done, was to bring honor and glory to Jesus, that we might create a place where the Good News is shared with all.

So then (and this is the hard thing that God just laid on my heart) if we put such great emphasis on building a place where the Holy Spirit can work in the lives of people, why then am I neglecting the most precious temple that houses the Holy Spirit and that is my own body (1 Corinthians 6:19). Why do I feed it the wrong things? Fail to take care of it as I should? Bring into it garbage thoughts, detrimental attitudes, ungrateful opinions? Shouldn’t I be doing some house (I mean) temple cleaning?

Shouldn’t I be treating my body, my temple, as one that is honoring to the Lord? Well, that has made me ponder some things for today. Let me know how you feel about it?

Feeling convicted by the Lord

Pastor Kathy


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