And the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time. 1 Kings 9:3 – In chapter 3 we see the Lord speak to Solomon (this was the time when He give Solmon his wisdom), and now Solomon is blessed with a second appearance from the Lord. After building the temple and after sacrificing on the altar an abundance of offerings, Solomon prayed that the Lord would see their work and bless the people that worshipped Him there. God graciously appears to Solomon, tells Solmon He had heard the prayer, and we see in our verse God consecrates the Temple. This means God made it holy, He set it apart for Himself. This is a very important lesson we need to remind ourselves of. We aren’t the ones that make anything holy. We can’t make a worship service holy. We can’t make church holy. We can’t make a person holy. Only God can do that. Only God can take away sin, which reveals our desperate need for His work in our lives. Pray then that God would make your church and times of worship holy for Him, that they would be separated from sinfulness completely and only filled with His Holy Spirit. Pray that God will make holy the lost around you, that He will call them to Himself and He will save them. If you have been saved from your sin, dwell on the reality that it was not you who saved you and made yourself holy. It wasn’t your efforts that earned you the descriptor of “holy,” you carry that only because of the sacrifice of Jesus and the grace of God. While its humbling to think that we can’t even make ourselves holy enough to be close to God on our own, praise the Lord we have a God that enjoys doing that for us. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3053
Question To Ponder: How might God make a church holy?
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