✝ Daily Encouragement (1/11/24) "A Consideration Of Flooring"
Published: Thu, 01/11/24
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Our friend Doris High took this photo at a deer farm on a backroad not far from her home here in Lancaster
County.
"A Consideration Of
Flooring"
Message summary:
After we put flooring in we probably tend to take it for granted, seeing it mostly as
functional. Indeed, a solid floor is critically important. Just as a solid floor is crucial for a comfortable, sturdy structure, a strong and unwavering faith is essential for living in steadfastness for Christ.
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"He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress" (1 Kings 6:15). ![]()
But Ted, who is now a grandpa, has been doing it since he was a teenager and told me he has another flooring
job today and tomorrow. Like most who work hard and have a skilled trade he has no shortage of work. Today, why not offer a prayer of thanks for flooring installers!
His work prompted a consideration of flooring.
We've never lived in a place that had a dirt floor but Brooksyne recalls her grandparents, who lived on a
mountain in northwest Arkansas, who had rough planks of wood floor with cracks wide enough for her grandma just swept the dirt in the cracks.
No dust pan required! That may have been kind of like when you used to put your used razor blade in a slot in the back of the medicine cabinet to dispose in the wall cavity. I wonder if they ever filled up so that you couldn't cram any more in? Time to buy a new
house!
I don't remember much about the flooring we had growing up though Brooksyne remembers they had hardwood
flooring before the shag carpet became popular, the kind that required a carpet rake to make it stand up and impress guests. The more money you spent the longer the shag! I suppose then and now kids don't think much about flooring. I don't think my folks even thought of it as anything but the floor.
![]() At one
point
it was the trend
to cover over real hardwood flooring with carpeting. That was a thing when carpet was new. Then a subsequent owner would discover that the worn out carpeting covered beautiful hardwood flooring and wonder why they ever covered it in the first place! Our first "real" house was a home we purchased in 1986 where we did this. Looked fine except the previous owner
had spoiled pets. Instead of going to an outdoor potty they went through the carpet and stained the hardwood!
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What about flooring in the Bible? Have you given that much consideration? I doubt if very many of you ever
thought about it. Best as I've been able to determine they didn't have shag carpeting. (But I'm no expert of Biblical flooring.)
By far the most common reference to flooring in the Bible is the
"threshing floor". See here
. This was a functional floor with an agrarian purpose. The threshing floors of the Bible were outdoor stone floors, usually circular in fashion, used by farmers to process the grain of their crops. Ruth and Boaz had their first date on the threshing floor (Ruth
3).
But today's text describes the flooring in Solomon's temple,
"he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress". That must have sure been a very attractive floor and then a few verses later we read, "The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms" (v.30)
. I don't suppose too many of our readers have these kinds of
floors!
After we put flooring in we'll likely take it for granted, seeing it mostly as functional. Indeed, a solid
floor is critically important and not just physically. Just as a solid floor is crucial for a sturdy structure, a strong and unwavering faith is essential for living in steadfastness for Christ.
Be encouraged
today,
Hebrews
3:13
Stephen & Brooksyne
Weber
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* Actually Joey is a college student home on break from Grove City College where he is a senior and will have
a degree in history. He is also getting married this year. Of course I encouraged him to stay steadfast in his commitment to Christ. Ted is a friend we know through his wife working for JK Mechanical, a company we serve as chaplains. Over time we often get to know the employees spouses.
Today's Suggested Music and Supplemental
Resources
"Threshing Floor" Watch on YouTube
Healing Place Worship Someone has
actually written a song about the Biblical threshing floor!
We have served as chaplains at
White Oak Display and Design
since 2008 where we regularly see flooring displays
being made.
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