Here is today’s Bible reading:  2 Chronicles 8:11-10:19; Romans 8:9-21; Psalm 18:16-36; Proverbs 19:26.

Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the LORD has come are holy.”
(2 Chronicles 8:11 ESV)

Solomon tries to do what we often do:  compartmentalize our lives into categories such as “sacred” and “secular”, “spiritual” and “day-to-day living”.  But in God’s eyes, everything is spiritual.  Everything is to be worship.  Everything is to be done as unto Him.  If a wife isn’t good enough to live in the palace in Jerusalem, then she probably ought not be his wife.  If something that we are doing can’t be done as unto the Lord, it ought not be done.