This blog post is based off of 2 Chronicles 2:1-6 from the "New Women's Devotional Bible".
King Solomon began to build the temple for God. He knew that it was a job of irony - how can you actually build something, man-made, to contain God? He knew it was not possible, but he also knew that it was something beautiful for God and something that other believers could enjoy and be reminded of the Almighty.
I'm sure that in building something for God it would be stressful and hard to do. Everything you use to build with is probably something God has provided. And what also do you give the One who has it all? On the other hand, building something for God must be rewarding! Knowing that He is providing what He wants and needs for the project must be a treasure in itself to experience.
Whether or not it is literally building something for God or if it is dedicating your time and energy to Him, is it a fair percentage of your being? Are we giving back to God in the way we should?
Some of us hear this and think money, some of us think our hearts for the first (or maybe second) time, and others think time and talents. Whatever you can give to God, give back what He deserves! King Solomon built Him a temple and we can give back just as fair as a percentage if we allow ourselves to do so.
What can you use to give back to God?
"[Work] is, or should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God." Dorothy Lee Sayers
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