Reading
SAA Notes
In books or magazine articles today, the emphasis of this chapter would be reversed, with more space devoted to Solomon’s palaces than on a religious site like a national church building. God’s people are to remember in all of life’s avenues the aweful reality of the Living God!
SJA Notes
* Lord God, we sing a new song to You, for You have done marvelous things! Your right hand and Your holy arm have worked Your salvation.
“And Solomon left the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; …”
How about Hiram, what a worker he was!
He and those working under him made such a vast number of bronze objects that they stopped counting them. Objects that were, in large part, for the temple – God’s house.
In Ecclesiastes 9:10 we read,
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might,”
And in Colossians 3:23 Pauls says,
“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,”
This is the crux for us. Working for the Lord.
Hiram worked for the Lord. Look at the results!
A building that is like no other, probably throughout history.
The Lord puts us all in various places and situations, for the building of His kingdom, for His glory.
And so when we work, when we work for the Lord, we are part of the building into eternity – A work that has value and meaning, even when it doesn’t seem much!
* Gracious Heavenly Father,
You call us to work with everything we have. Please help us to do this.
Please give us strength to go about the tasks You have set for us each day.
Please give us the courage to go about Your work, even at the cost of pride, even when we might be laughed at.
Please help us to remember that we are working for You, in whatever our hands find to do.
Amen.