What are we stealing from the Temple?

Reading: 2 Kings 16, 2 Chronicles 28, Psalm 113, and John 14

Scripture: 2 Kings 16:8, Ahaz also took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasures of the king’s house and sent a present to the king of Assyria.

Thoughts: As I read this passage for the third time today, trying to hear something from God. My mind went to 1 Corinthians 6:19, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own.” If we are the Temple (House of the Lord) and we have Holy Spirit living in us, then our abilities and gifts are the silver and gold of the Temple. I know that I have squandered that gold and silver in the past. The question is, are we stealing what belongs to the Lord and giving it to the world or even the evil one?

Prayer: Father God, you are worthy of all praise and honor and glory. I thank you for all that you are doing in my life. I thank you for the provision and blessings even when I’m not stewarding them as I should. I thank you for my wife and children. I ask that you help me to use my talents and gifts for you and not for my glory or for the world. You are the creator and giver of all things you own the cattle on a thousand hills. I play you lead us and guide us all our days.