February 4, 2020 - God bestowed great wisdom on king Solomon for as a very young man, with the death of his father David, he took responsibility for the rule of Israel.
God asked of Solomon, "Ask what I shall give you." (2 Chronicles 1:7)
Unlike most young men, Solomon did not ask for riches or wealth, he asked only that God give him the wisdom and knowledge to rule his people.
For this unselfish request, God gave to him, "wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like." (2 Chronicles 1:12)
Now Solomon having great wisdom and knowledge granted to him from God understood that the glory of God comes not in physical things but in the spiritual things of our Lord.
He understood that God's Spirit cannot be contained in any building or monument but that he is Omnipresent, being everywhere at once, Omnipotent, being all powerful, and Omniscient, being all knowing.
Solomon, even as he started to build the temple for the Lord in Jerusalem knew it could not contain the Lord our God and he acknowledges this awesome fact.
"The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all Gods. But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?" (2 Chronicles 2:5-6)
With the sacrifice of the life of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross there is no longer a need for a house to make animal sacrifices to the Lord, but we who follow him are being made a spiritual house for him; "you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ." (1 Peter 2:5)
"If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated the right hand of God." (Colossians 3:1)
"Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a compliant against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive." (Colossians 3:12-13)
"Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving." Colossians 2:6-7)
"And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." (Colossians 3:17)
"When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory." (Colossians 3:4)
I would wish for all people that all should come to repentance and receive redemption from sin, becoming living stones in the spiritual house of the Lord. That all would then know the joy and peace that comes only through our Lord Jesus Christ.
May the Lord our God make his face to shine upon you and may you receive his blessings every day.
