In You I Find my Strength
2nd Chronicles 3
If we compare this chapter to 1st Kings 6, we can see that 1st Kings has a little more detail given to it with what the temple’s decoration is. Why do you think it is important that the Bible list details of the Temple? In this chapter we see that, the Temple was a certain size and the Most holy place was a certain size but more attention is given to the gold that was laid through out it.
The best you can Do
If we had a colored and detailed picture of the Temple, I believe the world would be blown away. When Alyssa and I first got married we went to a place called Hearst Castle in San Simeon. 
Have you been there? We would pretend what it would have been like if you lived there? I just remembering being blown away with the detail that was put in the architect. It was not just detail but expensive detail. There were valuables that were considered priceless, gold trim, statues that dated to ancient Rome and Greece. In comparison, the Temple would have been even greater and the time and amount of work as well as the detail in architecture and gold everywhere would have been beyond priceless (If that is possible).
We need to realize the amount or price that was paid for this temple was amazing. The amount of gold given was great and we see it being used for the temple being to give it decoration. A reminder that God is deserving of our best. When we come to the time of offering, is it an attitude of worship or is it of distraction? When songs are sung do you give it whole heartedly or do you do you let your lips sing but your heart is on something else? God deserves our best and when it comes to a time set aside for praise and adoration we should not fail at that.
God’s Pillar is Everlasting
At the end of the chapter we see that Solomon names two pillars. Now a pillar would be a column used to support the building. If you had a weak column your structure would not last that long. Solomon named two pillars, Jachin which means “He establishes” and Boaz, which means “In him is strength.” God is the foundation which he establishes and which in him you find strength. David wrote in Psalm 18:2, “The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”
In who do you put your trust? If it is in someone be careful because we will always be let down one way or another by our friends and even it could happen with family. True strength that will never fail is in our Lord Jesus Christ. In him and him alone is my hope to continue in this world.
