(August 29, 2014)
One of
the problems in our modern society is we have lost touch with the strong
impulse to build for the future of those who will come after us. David, it is clear, wanted to build a temple
to the Lord. This was perhaps a good
impulse, but his life that he had lived (and I wonder whether David might have
misinterpreted the Lord’s inspiration to him, such that the blood that was shed
that prohibited him was the blood of Uriah) precluded him building the temple.
To his
credit, however, he spent his days preparing and gathering materials and
workers to build a temple that he would never see or worship in. He must have known that he was building
Solomon’s temple, rather than David’s temple, but yet he continued to strive to
prepare for that day. He built for the
future generation that he would never see.
We need more of that in our day – more of us willing to make the
sacrifices to build our future generations rather than squandering what others
have left to us.
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