The Invisible Pomegranates
Today you’re going to read a passage you’ve never read before in your devotions, about two rows of invisible pomegranates in the Temple of Yahweh. And you may be wondering why you’re reading about these. But trust the process…
Remember that all week we’ve been learning about giftedness. The context of our passage is that King Solomon building the First Temple in Jerusalem, and has found a super talented (bicultural!) craftsman named Huram who is an amazing interior design specialist. On top of these massive 27 foot tall pillars, Huram makes two rows of pomegranates - which very likely may have been invisible to the naked eye below:
King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram, whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was from Tyre and a skilled craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom, with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all the work assigned to him.
He cast two bronze pillars, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference. He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; each capital was five cubits high. A network of interwoven chains adorned the capitals on top of the pillars, seven for each capital. He made pomegranates in two rows encircling each network to decorate the capitals on top of the pillars. - 1 Kings 7:13-18
Just take some time to think about this random passage from the Bible and wonder…
Sometimes the gifts God gives us are not particularly ‘churchy’ - but working in bronze apparently is still a gift from God. What non-churchy gifts do you have?
Not all of the fruit of our labors need to be seen by people. Sometimes it’s enough that God alone gets to see our best work, sitting there invisible to the rest of the world. Can you find encouragement in that?