Topic: REJOICING, A SURE REWARD!
Text: 1 Kings 6:14-28
6:14 So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
6:15 And he built the inside walls of the temple with cedar boards; from the floor of the temple to the ceiling he paneled the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the temple with planks of cypress.
6:16 Then he built the twenty-cubit room at the rear of the temple, from floor to ceiling, with cedar boards; he built it inside as the inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.
6:17 And in front of it the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long.
6:18 The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with ornamental buds and open flowers. All was cedar; there was no stone to be seen.
6:19 And he prepared the [n]inner sanctuary inside the temple, to set the ark of the covenant of the Lord there.
6:20 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid it with pure gold, and overlaid the altar of cedar. 21
6:21 So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold. He stretched gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
6:22 The whole temple he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the temple; also he overlaid with gold the entire altar that was by the inner sanctuary.
6:23 Inside the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
6:24 One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub five cubits: ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.
6:25 And the other cherub was ten cubits; both cherubim were of the same size and shape.
6:26 The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub.
6:27 Then he set the cherubim inside the inner [o]room; and they stretched out the wings of the cherubim so that the wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall. And their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.
6:28 Also he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
STUDY:
Beautiful things put smiles on people’s faces and joy in their hearts. We read that the temple interior had walls that were partitioned with cedar from floor to ceiling so that no exterior stones could be seen. The inner sanctuary was covered with pure gold, all of which made the whole place extremely beautiful. Whenever worshipers gathered in the beautiful inner sanctuary to worship the LORD, they were stirred to rejoice (Psa. 16:11). David, who made many of the plans of the temple building (1 Chron. 22), captures for us the beauty of the temple that should make someone rejoice: He says, “One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple” (Psa. 27:4).
Like David, your sure reward will be rejoicing, if you desire tc behold the beauty of the LORD by being regular in church service (cf Heb 10:25); spending quality time in meditating on the Bible and praying without ceasing (Josh. 1:8; 1 Thess. 5:17); being desirous to live a life of holiness (1 Pet. 1:16); and determining to keep your body (temple) undefiled (beautiful) like Solomon’s beautiful temple (cf 1 Cor. 3:16).
Prayer:
Father; may I continue to desire to behold your beauty daily. Amen.
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