Tues.’s Devo - Life is our Future

Read: 2 Chron. 6:12-8:10, Ro. 7:14-8:8, Ps. 18:1-15, Pr. 19:24-25 Solomon dedicated the temple to the Lord. He had erected a platform in the middle of the courtyard to he could stand above the people and speak to them. On this platform, for all to see, Solomon bowed down and raised his hands toward heaven and praised God and prayed for his nation. His prayer was for mercy and forgiveness for the future generations.. God blessed Solomon’s prayer and answered it by sending fire to consume their offerings. This was all happening during the feast of tabernacles. The last three feasts all happen within the 7th month on the religious calendar and the first month on the civil calendar. One day Jesus will return on a Roshashana which will be Tishri one and the world will be judged throughout Yom Kippor and God will set up his new heaven and new earth on Tabernacles. Solomon’s coronation was the picture of all this. He set up his new kingdom, established the fact that they would worship God and made all his enemies serve him and pay him tribute. This will all happen one day. I know many of you are remembering those scriptures about ‘no man knows the day or hour when the son of man will return.’ If you read them in context you will realize that God is talking about those who are left when the church is taken out. They won’t know the day of judgment. We know that God will fulfill every feast. He has fulfilled the first four and the last three will be in the very end. One of my favorite truths is found in verse 14 of Romans 7. It says that the law is spiritual. If you look ‘spiritual’ up in the Greek it means ‘ethereal, super-natural, regenerating. The law is deeper than just a written law. It is life-giving. Twice in our reading in Romans it tells us to walk after the Spirit and not after the flesh. Then it tells us how our enemy attacks - in our mind. We have to will to think on things that bring life and godliness and dispel things that lead to death. Lord, hope us to choose life every time.