🏰 Temples old and new — 1 Kings 8:29–30

May your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, this place of which you said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that you will hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place.

Hear the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive. — 1 Kings 8: 29–30

I’ve been thinking lately about temples.

The temple that Solomon built in Old Testament times was to give God a location, a grand place in which to “live” or be fully focused upon.

People were to come and gather there, worship him, be heard by Him, seek forgiveness for their wrongs, etc.

Was it to be evangelical in nature? No, either you were a Jew or you were not. Did it represent God on earth? Maybe.

Our Role

But what about now, since Jesus came? Now WE are the temple.

We ARE to shine forth with God’s light and life to draw others to Him. It all changed with the coming to earth of Jesus, God’s son, and the Holy Spirit left behind to help us. Aren’t we grateful!

from Anne Cregger