As the people stood there, King Solomon turned to face them, and he asked God’s blessing on them. He said, “Praise the Lord God of Israel! He has kept the promise he made to my father David…
I await, Lord (Habakkuk 2:1-3): transformation and participation (Jeremiah 6:27; Philippiens 1:29-30; …). Isaiah 55:8-11. I will wait.
“…can you, O God, really live on earth? Not even all of heaven is large enough to hold you, so how can this Temple that I have built be large enough? …Watch over this Temple day and night, this place where you have chosen to be worshiped. Hear me when I face this Temple and pray. Hear my prayers and the prayers of your people when they face this place and pray. In your home in heaven hear us and forgive us.
A worldview significantly evolved from that of Moses (Numbers 10:35-36). How is my worldview limited?
“When your people sin against you—and there is no one who does not sin—and in your anger you let their enemies defeat them and take them as prisoners to some other land, even if that land is far away, listen to your people’s prayers. …If in that land they truly and sincerely repent and pray to you as they face toward this land which you gave to our ancestors, this city which you have chosen, and this Temple which I have built for you, then listen to their prayers. In your home in heaven hear them and be merciful to them.
As did Daniel three times a day (Daniel 6:10). And God answered (Daniel 9:20-23).
After Solomon had finished praying to the Lord, he stood up in front of the altar, where he had been kneeling with uplifted hands. In a loud voice he asked God’s blessings on all the people assembled there. He said, “Praise the Lord who has given his people peace, as he promised he would. He has kept all the generous promises he made through his servant Moses.”
You are faithful, Father, and you always fulfill your promises great and small. I am witness to your faithfulness: you have sustained me in the desert all these years.
“May the Lord our God be with us as he was with our ancestors; may he never leave us or abandon us; may he make us obedient to him, so that we will always live as he wants us to live…”
May you be with me, Lord (Joshua 1:9). May I lead a life pleasing to you (Colossians 1:9-10). May you fill the earth with the knowledge of who you are (Isaiah 11:9).