It had to be hard to lose his father, particularly after he spent so much time with him learning his trade. I can only imagine the grief he and his mother went through. Yet he answered the call to oversee some of the most elegant metalwork in the most important building in the kingdom.
1 Kings 7:13 tells us that when it was time to make the bronze furnishings in the temple, King Solomon “brought Hiram from Tyre.” The next verse adds, “He was a widow’s son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze (14).” I wonder how Hiram may have struggled to go on without his father in the family trade. Did he doubt if his skills lived up to his father’s?
Verse 14 goes on to tell us that Hiram didn’t just have the skill to make the bronze temple furnishings, “he was filled with wisdom and understanding.” Losing someone we love can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to paralyze us. With God’s wisdom and understanding, we can continue to pursue His work for His kingdom.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. – Ephesians 2:10, NASB
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