2 Kings 25:8-9 On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.
This verse accounts for the final destruction of the Temple of God and the kingdom of Judah. When the temple was built, the bible records it in as an amazing work of art. 7 years was spent constructing it and if you read the description in 1 King 6, one cannot be amazed at the lavishness of the materials used to build the temple of God.
Yet, what is a thing of beauty if everything else doesn't reflect the the same values. Judah was corrupt and did evil in the sight of the Lord. So evil that 2 Kings 24 records that "the LORD was not willing to forgive".
As I listened to the passage of how the temple was destroyed and plundered. A sense of regret filled me as I recognised that the temple was only a thing of past beauty. It didn't mean anything to God anymore.
What about us? Are own lives a thing of beauty without the presence of the one true God?
M.
The word of the LORD came to Solomon: "As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, carry out my regulations and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father. And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel." (1 Kings 6:11-13)
06 November 2009
Only a thing of beauty
2 Kings 25:8-9 On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.
This verse accounts for the final destruction of the Temple of God and the kingdom of Judah. When the temple was built, the bible records it in as an amazing work of art. 7 years was spent constructing it and if you read the description in 1 King 6, one cannot be amazed at the lavishness of the materials used to build the temple of God.
Yet, what is a thing of beauty if everything else doesn't reflect the the same values. Judah was corrupt and did evil in the sight of the Lord. So evil that 2 Kings 24 records that "the LORD was not willing to forgive".
As I listened to the passage of how the temple was destroyed and plundered. A sense of regret filled me as I recognised that the temple was only a thing of past beauty. It didn't mean anything to God anymore.
What about us? Are own lives a thing of beauty without the presence of the one true God?
M.
The word of the LORD came to Solomon: "As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, carry out my regulations and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father. And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel." (1 Kings 6:11-13)
This verse accounts for the final destruction of the Temple of God and the kingdom of Judah. When the temple was built, the bible records it in as an amazing work of art. 7 years was spent constructing it and if you read the description in 1 King 6, one cannot be amazed at the lavishness of the materials used to build the temple of God.
Yet, what is a thing of beauty if everything else doesn't reflect the the same values. Judah was corrupt and did evil in the sight of the Lord. So evil that 2 Kings 24 records that "the LORD was not willing to forgive".
As I listened to the passage of how the temple was destroyed and plundered. A sense of regret filled me as I recognised that the temple was only a thing of past beauty. It didn't mean anything to God anymore.
What about us? Are own lives a thing of beauty without the presence of the one true God?
M.
The word of the LORD came to Solomon: "As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, carry out my regulations and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father. And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel." (1 Kings 6:11-13)
