1 Chronicles 25:9-19
4 –16-2023
Behold, a son shall be born to you who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies. For his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days. He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.’
“Now, my son, the Lord be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the Lord your God, as he has spoken concerning you. Only, may the Lord grant you discretion and understanding, that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the Lord your God. Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the Lord commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed. With great pains I have provided for the house of the Lord 100,000 talents of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone, too, I have provided. To these, you must add. You have an abundance of workmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and all kinds of craftsmen without numbers, skilled in working gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Arise and work! The Lord be with you!”
David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying, “Is not the Lord your God with you? And has he not given you peace on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land is subdued before the Lord and his people. Now set your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God may be brought into a house built for the name of the Lord.”
I have told you in the past that David was a great King, a great Warrior, and a lousy dad. But as he got older and knew that the God he served, the one that from a young boy had fought for him, and had shed much blood in his many battles, was going to allow his son Solomon to build the Temple, David became a wonderful dad.
Listen to his council to Solomon, “Now, my son, the Lord be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the Lord your God, as he has spoken concerning you. Only, may the Lord grant you discretion and understanding, that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the Lord your God. Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the Lord commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.”
You also will notice; that David had done all the hard work of getting the materials and men of skills needed to do the job.
Dad, we should take to heart this model, for our sons and daughters, as a good manager of what God has given us.
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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