The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in 1 Chronicles 28:12,19,
"He [David] gave him [Solomon] the plans of all that the Spirit had put in his mind for the courts of the temple of the Lord and all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the temple of God and for the treasuries for the dedicated things... 'All this,' David said, 'I have in writing as a result of the Lord's hand on me, and he enabled me to understand all the details of the plan.'"
The Lord hand-picked Solomon to build the first temple in Jerusalem for himself. David desired to do so but the Lord disqualified him in favor of his son, Solomon. Nevertheless, David was able to acquire materials and craftsmanship for Solomon to complete the task. These he placed at Solomon's disposal and told his son and all the leaders of Israel of the day that it was the Lord himself who had provided the design and the plans for the temple construction.
Think of it! A building standing on planet earth that was designed by our Creator himself! What this tells me is that there are those things in life the Lord leaves up to us, to our own design, our own plan, our own industry. Yet there are other things in life the Lord chooses to do himself.
We get a flavor of this as we read how the Lord designed things to be in the church. In Ephesians 4:11-13 we read, "So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ."
"He [David] gave him [Solomon] the plans of all that the Spirit had put in his mind for the courts of the temple of the Lord and all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the temple of God and for the treasuries for the dedicated things... 'All this,' David said, 'I have in writing as a result of the Lord's hand on me, and he enabled me to understand all the details of the plan.'"
The Lord hand-picked Solomon to build the first temple in Jerusalem for himself. David desired to do so but the Lord disqualified him in favor of his son, Solomon. Nevertheless, David was able to acquire materials and craftsmanship for Solomon to complete the task. These he placed at Solomon's disposal and told his son and all the leaders of Israel of the day that it was the Lord himself who had provided the design and the plans for the temple construction.
Think of it! A building standing on planet earth that was designed by our Creator himself! What this tells me is that there are those things in life the Lord leaves up to us, to our own design, our own plan, our own industry. Yet there are other things in life the Lord chooses to do himself.
We get a flavor of this as we read how the Lord designed things to be in the church. In Ephesians 4:11-13 we read, "So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ."
This design for building up the church - that we might attain a unity in the faith, knowledge of the Son of God, to become mature and attaining the whole measure of the fullness of Christ - is designed by himself!
I am reminded that what the Lord designs, he designs in perfection. While the church is not perfect, he has established the perfect plan to grow the church in that direction, that it may attain "to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ."
Just as Solomon was to follow the design exactly as the Lord gave it to his father, so we are to follow the design the Lord has given the church.
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