Reading
SAA Notes
Solomon’s prayer at the dedication of the Temple has many segments that speak to your heart, mind and soul. Find one section that is relevant to your life in this decade.
SJA Notes
* Dear God, we would shout for joy to You, worship You with gladness, come before You with joyful songs – We are Your people, the sheep of Your pasture.
“If they sin against you … Then hear in heaven …”
IF <this> THEN hear in heaven Your dwelling place AND <that>
We’ve seen previously the programmatic binary conditional statements that exist within God’s word. Here Solomon’s prayer is grounded and built around them.
We can read through each of the segments. They are almost storyboards, like stepping through a cartoon or movie frame by frame.
Different examples of the people crying out to God.
In the book of Jeremiah, the man Jeremiah is pleading and wrestling with the Lord for mercy. At that time God had grown weary of relenting (Jeremiah 15:6) and was winnowing His people.
How good it is for us that Jesus, God in the Person of the Son, took on God’s wrath for us, for our sin.
That Jesus, through His sacrifice, atonement, through His effective work – Jesus saves us.
More, through God the Spirit, sent by God the Son, we are being sanctified, brought toward glory, built up into that spiritual house, so that we can obey.
We can do what pleases God – Hallelujah, what a Saviour!
* Gracious Saviour,
Thank You for calling us, a people who had rejected You, we were Your enemies.
Thank You for Your mercy toward us.
Thank You for rescuing us.
Thank You Lord!
Amen.