Seize the Moment – Day 855
Keeping up with Building Repairs!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Wednesday, July 20.
Do you own a house or does your house own you? It takes significant planning, financial resources, and a large group of talented people to keep up with building repairs, whether at home or at church. This was true of the temple. In 2 Kings 12:4-5, the king calls for a significant financial campaign for building repairs:
Then Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the sacred things which is brought into the house of the Lord, in current money, both the money of each man’s assessment and all the money which any man’s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the Lord, let the priests take it for themselves, each from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the damages of the house wherever any damage may be found.”
Then, in verses 11-12, Jehoiada, the Chief Priest, allocated those resources to the skilled workers:
They gave the money which was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the Lord; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the Lord; and to the masons and the stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the damages to the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
Then, after all that effort to make the building repairs, the enemy threatened to tear it all down. The king had to use an abundance of their allocated resources to protect Jerusalem from Hazael, king of Aram (17-18). In Matthew 6:20-21, Jesus calls us to wisdom in all our work, “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Seize the moment and invest your time, talents, and treasures into the work of the Lord.