The Meaning Of Life

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The temple has been built, furnished, and dedicated, and now God speaks to Solomon once again to promise that the throne would stay in his family forever. And as I read these words, they simply reaffirm to me the need to keep God’s law.

Satan has been a busy beaver trying to destroy Christianity and to draw everyone away from God as much as possible. There are good people, people that call themselves Christians, but they have the opinion that the law is no longer valid, that Christ’s sacrifice on the cross did away with the law. But here is just one more way I take issue with that.

Those same Christians claim to believe in the Holy Trinity. That mean’s believing that God is Jesus and Jesus is God, separate but one, and we see Jesus all throughout the Old Testament. Even the Apostle John in his Gospel, the first few verses, tells that the Word (which is Jesus) was there in the beginning, that He was with God, and that He was God. That said, how can God (Jesus) tell Solomon that the throne would remain in his lineage providing the people of Israel followed His commands and statutes? God never changes, so why would He remind Solomon the importance of obeying Him, if Jesus was just going to negate things a few centuries down the road?

I know these people mean well, and I don’t mean to be judgmental, I just wish they would read the Bible for themselves, stop looking for loopholes in the law, and verify every word that comes out of their pastor’s mouth! And I know…it has been taught to them in Sunday School since they were children, and it is hard to give up those beliefs that are so deeply rooted within them. A good pastor I like once said that in the end, it would be Christians against Christians, and both sides will think they are right, but only one side will be.

2 Chronicles 2-7 is a mirror of the last few chapters of 1 Kings we just studied. And while the scripture is virtually the same, it is still important that you read those chapters just to look for any differences or for information that was omitted from the Book of Kings.

Psalms 135-136 are both psalms authored by Solomon, suspected of being written around the time the temple was complete.

And Psalm 127, another psalm of Solomon, in my interpretation, pretty much says that if you don’t have God in your life, all that you do, work, home, and family is in vain.

Next up, the Book of Proverbs. Proverbs is a great read because it contains the wisdom of Solomon that really makes life easier. I hope you are as anxious to get into it as I am.

God bless you all!