Good Morning Friends,
“The foundation of the temple of the LORD was
laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv. In the eleventh year in the month
of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in all its details according
to its specifications. He had spent seven years building it.” (1 Kings 6:37-38)
It took Solomon and the people of Israel seven
years from the time they started work on the Temple to the time that it was
completed. It was a grand structure and it was ready to dedicate to the Lord.
One of the questions that had to be on the
minds of the people of Israel … and on Solomon’s mind, too … was “would God be
pleased with the Temple they had built for His glory?”
Solomon sent the priests to bring the Ark of
the Covenant … representing the presence of God … into the Temple. The priests
brought the Ark in and then the scriptures record.
“When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place,
the cloud filled the temple of the LORD. And the priests could not perform
their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled his
temple. Then Solomon said, ‘The LORD has said that he would dwell in a dark
cloud; I have indeed built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to
dwell forever.’” (1 Kings 8:10-12)
What a marvelous feeling it must have been for
Solomon and the people to realize so clearly that God was pleased. The glory of
God filled the Temple.
Do you know where the glory of God dwells now? Paul
made it clear that God’s glory rests in two places … in Jesus Christ and in His
church. “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or
imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in
the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and
ever! Amen.” (Ephesians 3:20-21)
God is pleased in Jesus and in His church!
His, by Grace,
Steve
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