God Knows Everything, He Can Be Trusted....

Have you ever wondered about how God knows everything: past, present, and future. Here’s an example, covering a large timespan. As we read about Solomon building the temple on Mount Moriah, I can’t help but think about all the things that took place here to solidify its significance. David had to purchase the site from a Jebusite. He paid about 15 pounds of gold for it. In today’s terms, that would equal about $300,000. He told the seller that he wouldn’t make an offering to the Lord that cost him nothing (the Jebusite had offered it to him for free). Then going back even further we read of Abraham taking his son Isaac up on the mountain. When Isaac asked his father, “where is the sacrifice?”, Abraham replied, “the Lord will provide”. And He did. That was On Mount Moriah. Now we have Solomon building the Temple on that same mountain. This same hill, said by some, is the crucifixion sight of Jesus. I don’t know how God knows, or how He orchestrates His plan, but I do know that He has it worked out in advance. If He wants me to trust Him, instead of trusting myself, I don’t have a problem with that. I just have to continue every day to fight my resistance to Him. Trusting God is the right thing to do. He’s proven Himself to be true to His Word. Trust Him.

1 So Solomon began to build the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David, his father. The Temple was built on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the site that David had selected. 2 The construction began in midspring, during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign. 2 Chronicles 3:1-2