Mon.’s Devo - Building The Temple

Read: 1 Chronicles 22:1-23:32; Romans 3:9-31; Psalm 12:1-8; Proverbs 19:13-14
Before David died he prepared everything Solomon would need to build the Temple even down to the nails. Then he called in Solomon and gave him the charge of building God’s house. David had saved up 100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, bronze and iron too great to be weighed and wood and stone. Then he told him he could add to it if he wanted to . He had provided the workforce to do everything that would be needed. He ordered the leaders of Israel to support Solomon an help him and made a very profound statement. He said, “the land is subject to the Lord and to his people.”
Think about that! God has given each of us a dream to build something whether it is a family, a business, a relationship, whatever and he has lavishly supplied everything we will need to do it. We can even add to it! The land is subject to the Lord and to us. We can command it to comply with the plans God has put in our hearts. God made it clear that whatever we are building it is so that we can fill it with God’s presence and it will be built for his Name.
He gathered all the leaders and the priests and Levites and put them over the work of the temple. Many of them got new assignments since they wouldn’t need to put up a tent any more. One of their duties was just to stand every morning and evening to thank and praise the Lord. Sounds like a great job…that is our job!
Paul gave a list of every man’s sins whether they are Jew or Gentile then he concluded that the law wasn’t given to make us righteous but to make us conscious of our sin. Man could not gain righteousness by following the law, because it was impossible to do. It proved that they needed a savior. Righteousness became available to man through faith in Jesus. It has nothing to do with our pedigree, status or goodness, but the love of God. Loving Jesus makes us want to obey his laws. The law is still good because we are blessed by keeping it. It is God’s manual for man to live by.
Lord, help us to understand grace and mercy without throwing out your nature and your commands.