Vital Signs: Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Prepare the Temple

“In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord. The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.” ‭‭1 Kings‬ ‭6‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Today in my personal reading I began to read about the building of the Lord’s temple by King Solomon. The reading is quite extensive and very detailed, and I would encourage everyone to go and read it for yourself, but the point I want to make today is this: Solomon, King David’s son, was assigned to build the most beautiful temple of all to worship the one true living God. The detail he went to was unbelievable—the preparation he made could only be overseen by a person of leadership, administrative skill, and great wisdom. This temple was made of the finest material known to man.

My question for us today is: Are we willing to go to the same extreme in preparing our temple—our hearts, our minds, our souls, our spirits, our schedules? You see, we, the born again, are the temple of the Holy Spirit—a temple not made with hands, but a temple made by God, filled with the Spirit of God. Starting today, may we pay less attention to what the world has to offer and more attention to the preparation of our hearts, our minds, our souls, our spirits—our temples.

May we be found guilty of walking out and fleshing out that which the Spirit of God has for us. Today, may we find ourselves in that holy place where we meet with God and God alone.

The darkness doesn’t need us echoing what the world has to say—it needs the voice of every believer sounding out the good news of the gospel of Jesus. This will be on full display when our temples are clean and filled with the Spirit of God afresh and anew.