2 Chronicles 3:15-17 (NIVUK)
15 For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits long, each with a capital five cubits high. 16 He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains. 17 He erected the pillars in the front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The one to the south he named Jakin and the one to the north Boaz.
On joked on Sunday about giving naming rights for our redeveloped church – I wonder what it would get called! ‘The Mazi Cafe Porch’? ‘The Costcutters’ Cubicles?’ Solomon had the two pillars outside the Temple names, Jakim and Boaz. As usual there’s a bit of guesswork around what these mean, but it is suggested that these mean ‘he establishes’ and ‘in him is strength’ respectively, very appropriate for pillars. The point was, that when you saw them, you would think about God and these aspects of him. It got me wondering what nicknames we could give to things around us in our daily lives that might then act as an encouragement and spur to worship?
Father, remind me of yourself today through the things that I see and use.
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