The Blessing of Being Thankful
(2 Chronicles 5:11-14; ASV)
11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests that were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their courses;
12 also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brethren, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets;)
13 it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Jehovah; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Jehovah, (saying), For he is good; for his lovingkindness (endureth) for ever; that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Jehovah,
14 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of Jehovah filled the house of God.
1. Not when they offered sacrifices, but when they sang the praises of God the glory of the LORD filled the house of God!
2. “…For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: ‘I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be there God, and they shall be my people.’”
(2 Corinthians 6:16)
3. “Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.” (Ephesians 2:19-22)
4. If the glory of the Lord is to fill up His spiritual temple today, we must first come to Him with thanksgiving!
Jason
