11/15/2010 10:02:00 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The site, materials, and workers
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: 1Chron. 22:1-4
Message of the verses: “1 ¶
Then David said, "This is the house of the LORD God, and this is
the altar of burnt offering for Israel." 2
So David gave orders to gather the foreigners who were in the land of
Israel, and he set stonecutters to hew out stones to build the house of God.
3 David prepared large quantities of
iron to make the nails for the doors of the gates and for the clamps, and more
bronze than could be weighed; 4 and
timbers of cedar logs beyond number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought
large quantities of cedar timber to David.”
This
SD begins the last chapter in Warren Wiersbe’s commentary on 2Samuel and parts
of 1Chronicles. This chapter in his book
covers 1Chronicles 22-29 as the book of 2Samuel is now finished with the last
chapter of his commentary. The first
main section in his commentary had no Scripture reference to it and so I read
it yesterday afternoon. Dr. Wiersbe
commented on the fact that David was preparing to build the Temple of God, but
knew that God had chosen Solomon to actually build this temple, but the
preparation was a big part of the job and David undertook this part of the
project, and I believe one reason for this is because that Solomon was young
when he became king. Dr. Wiersbe points
out that even though these chapters are full of names it is important to know
who these people were, especially to those who returned from the Babylonian
because these people who did the work on this first temple were from certain
tribes and had different duties and to those returning this was information
that they needed. He also points out
that there are similar things used from building this Temple of God that are
needed to build the local churches today.
Paul writes that the local church should be built with gold, silver and
jewels and not with wood, hay and straw, and so this temple was built with
gold, silver, and jewels, things that took hard work to find, but things that
lasted. Anyone can find wood, hay, and
straw, but it takes work to find gold, silver, and jewels thus it is the Word
of God that contains this gold, silver, and jewels and that is what the local
church is built on.
When
the Lord sent fire to consume the burnt offering that was offered by David on
what was known as Mount Moriah, the place where Abraham offered his son Isaac
to the Lord as a burnt offering, but the Lord stopped him and provided a lamb
in his place, this is where David knew that the temple had to be built. David stopped going to the tabernacle at
Gibeon and began to offer sacrifices here where he knew that God wanted His
Temple built.
David
began to gather the people to build this temple and part of the workers were
“gentiles” but they were not slaves of the people of Israel. By having these gentile workers it shows that
the temple was for all and not just for the Jews.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: It took many years and much hard work to have
this temple of the Lord built and this again reminds me of how much work it
takes to be a part of a local church, to help in the building of a local
church, for it takes much studying and digging in the Word of God each and
every day in order to mine the gold, silver, and precious jewels in order to
understand how this church is to operate, for it is in the Word of God that
shows all of these things.
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
Trust the Lord for the outcome of the physical
problem that I now have, that it will be good for me and bring glory to the
Lord.
2.
Trust the Lord to guide me and direct my path in all
that I do today and every day of my life.
3.
Be protected by the Spiritual Armor.
11/15/2010 10:42:51 AM
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