Daily Journal: 13 February

Overlay Your Life With Gold

How often do you consider the wonder of God? How often do you think about His glory? How well do you revere and exalt Him?

King David and King Solomon revered God. Their lives and their actions indicate the position of power and authority in which they held Him.

1 Kings 6:7

In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.

Even in building the temple, King Solomon didn’t allow it to become a place for the ordinary. It didn’t become a worksite during its build. He kept it holy. The builders’ protocol was completely different while building the temple of God than it would have been on any other worksite. Their thinking had to be different to any other job. Their processes had to be changed. Because building the temple was holy. They honoured God to such an extent they elevated their standards of protocol and the ground they were building on, not allowing anything to disturb the peace, not allowing mess or debris to litter the ground. They established it as a holy place because God was to live there.

Do you treat the way you’re building your life as holy? Do you think differently to the people in the world around you? Do you have different processes in your life – a different lifestyle? Do you honour God in all that you do? Do you keep your peace and your inner heart undisturbed? Do you make sure you don’t allow rubbish in to mess up your mind, your thoughts, so that you remain clean and undefiled?

1 Kings 6:21-22

Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold. So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.

You can overlay your life with gold. The thoughts in your mind, the heart you carry, the fun you have, the things you laugh about, the things you work at or enjoy doing for leisure, the relationships you have, are all parts of your temple. 

God sees it all and He receives the gift of your life given back to Him in honour and joy every day. Every part of every day. He doesn’t go away and come back on Sundays. He’s always readily attentive to you. Are you always readily attentive to Him? Are you overlaying your life with gold for Him?

1 Corinthians 3:16 (GNT)

Surely you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you!

Colossians 3:16 (ERV)

Let the teaching of Christ live inside you richly. Use all wisdom to teach and counsel each other. Sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Philippians 2:12-16 (NLT)

Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear.  For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. Do everything without complaining and arguing, so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people. Hold firmly to the word of life