Day 167: 1st Kings 9 and 2nd Chronicles 8

Today on Meditating the Word, the Lord appears to Solomon a second time, Solomon builds other cities, and Solomon moves his wife into the house he built for her. 

This is Day 167. Today we are reading 1st Kings 9 and 2nd Chronicles 8

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Father God, it's interesting that Solomon wouldn't allow his wife, the daughter of Pharoah, to live in the presence of the Ark of the Covenant because it was holy. He built her a house away from David's house and from the temple. It makes me realize what a mistake it is to try to compartmentalize our lives into spiritual and secular categories. We aren't called to be Christian on certain days, or at certain times, or in certain places, but every place and all the time. Help us, Father, to recognize when we try to make allowances for the things of this world and to instead live our lives wholly dedicated to you.  Amen

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