A right time to search and another to count your losses, a right time to hold on and another to let go. Ecclesiastes 3:6 The Message.
True, God made everything beautiful in itself and in its time - but he's left us in the dark, so we can never know what God is up to, whether he is coming or going. Ecclesiastes 3:11 The Message.
David was a man whom God considers as one after His own heart, but he was not the one whom God had in mind to build His Temple. David said to Solomon, "I wanted in the worst way to build a sanctuary to honour my GOD. But GOD prevented me, saying, 'You've killed too many people, fought too many wars. You are not the one to honour me by building a sanctuary - you've been responsible for too much killing, too much bloodshed. But you are going to have a son and he will be a quiet and peaceful man, and I will calm his enemies down on all sides. His very name will speak peace - that is, Solomon, which means Peace - and I'll give peace and rest under his rule. 1 Chronicles 22:7-9 The Message.
As much as David had wanted to honour his Lord GOD by building Him a temple, it was not meant to be. David had taken too many lives on the battlefields, shed too much blood. But God knew David's heart, saw David's intention to honour Him and spoke into David's life during that occasion. God revealed to David what he could expect about the future, about his successor, about what God would do for His covenant people. God revealed a time of peace and rest that would come to
David honoured God by fighting for his kingdom. God honoured David's desire to build Him a temple by blessing him with the ability financially and logistically. David despite of not being chosen to build the temple, had diligently, conscientiously and systematically gathered all the materials and manpower so that his son, Solomon, could begin work on the temple. Although he was not the man to do the job, he was the man who had the heart to get the job done.
"Indeed I have taken much trouble to prepare for the house of the LORD one hundred thousand talents of gold and one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond measure, for it is so abundant. I have prepared timber and stone also, and you may add to them. Moreover there are workmen with you in abundance: woodsmen and stonecutters, and all types of skillful men for every kind of work. Of gold and silver and bronze and iron there is no limit. Arise and begin working, and the LORD be with you." David also commanded all the leaders of
Behind David's rejection lied a greater purpose of God, in fact a promise of God! Times when we can't see His hand, we have to learn to trust His heart.
Shalom,
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