October 20, 2013 – 2 Chronicles 4:11 – 6:11

You can imagine the joy and celebration that was going on as they brought the Ark up to the Temple.  What caught my attention was when the Cloud came down in the Temple everything stopped.  It says that the “priest could not continue to minister because of the cloud, since the Lord’s glory filled the house of God.”  It is hard to imagine what that moment of ah must have been.  You are celebrating and joyful and singing and then a cloud fills this huge Temple and everything just stops in ah of the presence of God.  And you must know that it was not just the visual, but the presence must have had an effect on each individual person.  It was God in their presence.  That is the same God that is present at Mass or in the Adoration chapel.  We should have the same quiet ah in those places that Israel showed here when the Temple was dedicated.