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**2 Chronicles 7:7** — *"Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar he had made could not hold all these offerings."*
The altar was not big enough. Consider the image: Solomon, the wisest king Israel ever knew, built something magnificent — and worship still overflowed its edges.
There is a pastoral truth here worth sitting with. Our carefully constructed containers — our liturgies, our programs, our well-planned devotionals — are never quite large enough to hold what God pours out. Solomon did not stop the offering. He consecrated more ground and kept going.
Stewardship of the sacred sometimes means expanding your courtyard, not shrinking your worship to fit what you've already built.
Scripture reminds us in Psalm 96:8 to *"bring an offering and come into his courts"* — courts, plural. There is always more room when God is the one receiving.
Walk with that today.
The altar was not big enough. Consider the image: Solomon, the wisest king Israel ever knew, built something magnificent — and worship still overflowed its edges.
There is a pastoral truth here worth sitting with. Our carefully constructed containers — our liturgies, our programs, our well-planned devotionals — are never quite large enough to hold what God pours out. Solomon did not stop the offering. He consecrated more ground and kept going.
Stewardship of the sacred sometimes means expanding your courtyard, not shrinking your worship to fit what you've already built.
Scripture reminds us in Psalm 96:8 to *"bring an offering and come into his courts"* — courts, plural. There is always more room when God is the one receiving.
Walk with that today.
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