As I write this blog it is the 16th of December and we all await the celebration of the birth of our Lord. Now along the road to my spiritual journey I have come to understand that along with the birth of a savior came an easier more convenient opportunity to worship our Lord. David was to instruct his son, Solomon, to build a temple to honor and praise the Lord. So much thought and instruction had been put into place to complete it. Each phase of this temple had such specifics such as, which family and which descendants would be responsible for each job. Such care was taken to supply the job with materials of certain kinds. To lengthy to list were all the other jobs assigned. I soon got the feeling that a lot of thought and love for the Lord was behind all this planning. Honestly, it exhausted me to read it let alone be a part of this Temple raising. It was clear, for the time, this was the honoring way to accomplish the building.

Today, if we want a church we watch as it goes up by a construction company along with all our hopes and dreams of all we will do in this church to honor and worship our Lord. We are taught about the Holy Spirit and how we can always call on him to speak to us, telling us what direction to go in so that we can please and honor our Lord. In our church we can offer up prayer to a God who listens. Today we are fortunate to be able to do what God asks of us and offer our efforts up to him in praise. Long gone are the days of weights, measures, stone bricks and lumber. Those were relevant back in those times. Jesus came and died on the cross and paved our way.