Devote your heart and soul to seeking the Lord your God

1 Chronicles 22:1-18
David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the Lord should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for it.” So David made extensive preparations before his death.
“Now, my son, the Lord be with you, and may you have success and build the house of the Lord your God, as he said you would. May the Lord give you discretion and understanding when he puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God. Then you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that the Lord gave Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.
Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon. He said to them, “Is not the Lord your God with you? And has he not granted you rest on every side? For he has given the inhabitants of the land into my hands, and the land is subject to the Lord and to his people. Now devote your heart and soul to seeking the Lord your God.
This section has no parallel in Samuel. It follows naturally from the mention of the Temple in verse 1. It probably belongs to the time of Solomon's co-regency with his father, which may have lasted some years. David never stopped longing to build God a house fit for him. He accepted the set-back of God's refusal and turned all his energy and enthusiasm to the things he could do; selecting the site; amassing materials; deciding the plan.
Why?
David is long to build the house for the Lord, so he could not be allowed to make it, so David prepared material and money for his son Solomon.
Devote your heart and soul to seeking the Lord your God is the real Temple in our hearts.
David prayed to the Lord for his son "Give you discretion and understanding when he puts you in command over Israel." And it has come true in Solomon.  Discretion and understanding is the best gift from the Lord.
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預報的人通常比較不會留名，大衛知道留名在天上更重要。事奉不是自己想做的，而是順服神。因為順服上帝所做的事叫做服事。
打戰不是神吩咐去打? 不是因為大衛殺許多人以致不能建聖殿。而是建聖殿要在太平時候建。
在應許之地平定所有內憂外患後去獻祭。大衛像士師的角色。神給大衛的任務是打天下，建立政治、外交、軍事的環境。神常常藉不同的人來完成一件事，也許同時代，也許不同代，一代接一代接力，讓多人同工。所羅門也不能自己完成，必須以色列眾首領來完成。
聖殿代表耶穌，聖殿是回到神面前的路。耶穌說我是道路、真理、生命。彰顯耶穌的就是教會。或是說耶穌基督的身體就是教會。建造聖殿好像建造教會，每個人各有其職，在愛中建立耶穌的身體，神對每個人都有神的計劃，職責。建造聖殿是我們每個人的福氣。
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How?
Devote my heart to the Lord and resume the relationship between me and the Lord is the meaning of God's Temple.