Today, I am reading and commenting on 1 Kings 9-10.

I am going to write about God’s answer to Solomon’s prayer dedicating the temple he had built.  The first part of God’s answer is that He has consecrated the Temple, and that He had placed his Name upon it forever.  Even today, long after the temple was last destroyed (and not rebuilt), God’s name is associated with it.  God still holds Jerusalem in His eyes and in His Heart.  Which brings me to God’s warning, both for the Israelites and for us.  God told Solomon that if he, and the people he ruled over, or their descendants turned away from Him, the temple would become a heap of rubble about which people would say, “This happened because they have forsaken the Lord their God.”  Today, the temple is a pile of rubble, and those who know God know that is the case because God’s people forsook the Lord their God.  It serves as an object lesson to us today.  The monuments of those who forsake the Lord will be rendered into heaps of rubble.  Let us not forsake God ourselves lest we find our very lives become living heaps of rubble to serve as object lessons to those who come after us.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.