Thank you for taking time to read this mornings Fire-starter from 2
Chronicles 3. This mornings Fire-starter thought is: why Mt. Moriah? Our
Fire-starter verse is verse 1. Please share this with family and friends.

As you read this particular passage of scripture you will find where
Solomon is building the temple on Mt. Moriah. Mt. Moriah was a special
place for two different reasons but with the same story if I can say it
that way.

Let me mention  a couple of things as we start. Mt. Moriah was known for
the testing of Abraham where he was willing to offer his only son
Isaac.  Now Mt. Moriah is known where David offered his offering on the
threshingfloor of Ornan. And this is the place where Solomon is now
building the temple. The temple will be there for offerings and sacrifices.

Now before I continue did you catch the reoccurring theme?

  It is sacrifice and offerings!!!

See alot of times we want a blessing from God yet we do not want a Mt.
Moriah experience. All three cases it would be something that would cost
them
  Of course we know that Abraham offered up the ram that God provided.
David offered up things that he paid a price for. Solomon built the
temple where sacrifices and offerings would be made.

You may not enjoy going to Mt. Moriah because of the sacrifices you may
have to offer or offerings you will have to offer but the greatest
reward is that that God gives.

God deserves our sacrifice and offerings but he more importantly
deserves our obedience!!!!
May we be willing to be a living sacrifice on our Mt. Moriah today. Hope
you have a wonderful day!

2 Chronicles 3:1-17 KJV
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount
Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that
David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. [2] And
he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth
year of his reign. [3] Now these are the things wherein Solomon was
instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits
after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty
cubits. [4] And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length
of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the
height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure
gold. [5] And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he
overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains. [6] And
he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was
gold of Parvaim. [7] He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts,
and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved
cherubims on the walls. [8] And he made the most holy house, the length
whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and
the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold,
amounting to six hundred talents. [9] And the weight of the nails was
fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
[10] And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and
overlaid them with gold. [11] And the wings of the cherubims were twenty
cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the
wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching
to the wing of the other cherub. [12] And one wing of the other cherub
was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing
was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub. [13] The
wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they
stood on their feet, and their faces were inward. [14] And he made the
vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought
cherubims thereon. [15] Also he made before the house two pillars of
thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of
each of them was five cubits. [16] And he made chains, as in the oracle,
and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred
pomegranates, and put them on the chains. [17] And he reared up the
pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the
left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name
of that on the left Boaz.