{"id":2186,"date":"2020-06-10T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2020-05-27T09:26:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T14:26:59","slug":"what-temple-are-you-spending-more-time-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2020\/06\/10\/what-temple-are-you-spending-more-time-on\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT TEMPLE ARE YOU SPENDING MORE TIME ON?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cIt took Solomon thirteen years, however, to complete the construction of his palace.\u201d (1 Kings 7:1 NIV) <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived.  He gained his wisdom from God.  Because of his wisdom, he had more wealth than anyone else.  His tasks; building God\u2019s temple and his own palace.  By the time he finished God\u2019s temple, 7 years passed.  The work on his own personal temple took 13 years.  Solomon spent almost twice the time building his palace.  He spent more time on himself than God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of Jesus, our body is God\u2019s temple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDo you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;\u201d (<\/em>1 Corinthians 6:19 NIV<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking care of our bodies takes care of God\u2019s temple.  We are God\u2019s representative on earth.  When we spend time working on ourselves, we\u2019re working on God\u2019s temple.  However, we have to check our motives.  Are we really going to the gym to tone God\u2019s temple, or are we doing it for ourselves?  Am I volunteering all my time at church to make myself look better, or am I truly serving God?  Am I walking the walk or just talking the talk?  Our heart\u2019s motives determine the temple we\u2019re building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our heart\u2019s motives determine the temple we\u2019re building.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we\u2019re building God\u2019s temple, we\u2019re not exhausted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTake my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. <\/em> <\/em><\/strong>For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.\u201d  (<\/em>Matthew 11:29-30 NIV<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s leading in our lives creates balance.  When we seek God before making a commitment, we say yes to what He wants, no to what we want.  We don\u2019t overschedule ourselves with \u201cgood\u201d activities. We understand our limitations.  We realize, we\u2019re not the Savior of the world, Jesus is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m an empath.  I feel others pain deeply.  When a friend tells me she\u2019s hurting, I hurt.  But I had to learn, I can\u2019t fix their issues.  I listen to them, I pray for them.  I seek God\u2019s guidance on what I\u2019m to do, or not do.  And I try, to the best of my ability, to leave them in God\u2019s hands.  I understand, He loves them more than I ever can.  He knows what\u2019s best for them more than I ever will.  He sees the whole picture, I only see in part.  When I try to move without Him, I do more harm than good.  But we all have a common struggle when following Jesus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur problem following Jesus is we\u2019re trying to be a better version of us instead of a better reflection of Him.\u201d\u00a0 Bob Goff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, we\u2019re spending more time on our temple than God\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question of the Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What temple are you spending the most time on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further Reading: <\/strong>1 Kings 7:1-50 NIV<\/a>, Acts 7:30-50 NIV<\/a>, Psalm 128:1-6 NIV<\/a>, Proverbs 16:31-33 NIV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt took Solomon thirteen years, however, to complete the construction of his palace.\u201d (1 Kings 7:1 NIV)  Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived.  He gained his wisdom from God.  Because of his wisdom, he had more wealth than anyone else.  His tasks; building God\u2019s temple and his own palace.  By the time he… Continue reading WHAT TEMPLE ARE YOU SPENDING MORE TIME ON?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}