Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Bible Reading Challenge Week 22 Day 3

Our reading challenge for the day is 1 Chronicles 15-19. I’ll hit a few highlights. You make comments too and fill in the gaps. What strikes you as specially significant?

1 Chronicles 15-16 - David strives to make everything pertaining to bringing the ark to Jerusalem proper. He researches the way that the ark was to be transported. He has it accompanied by people singing the praises of God. He sings his own praises to God. What kind of song of praise do we have for our Lord? Notice how David’s song emphasizes God’s character and what he has done in history. So often our songs of praise emphasize our need and how God makes us feel. May the Lord help us look to him as our standard.

1 Chronicles 17-19 - David wishes to build a house for God’s presence. Instead, God appoints him to the task of being a great ruler in a time of conflict. God promises to establish David’s house, his realm. It is from the house of David that Jesus comes, the one whom David calls “Lord.” Is David’s reign perfect? Not at all. Yet David is fulfilling the vocation which God has given him. Whether your calling is to be a father or mother, husband or wife, single person, scholar, laborer, or king, it is a calling from God to be carried out with dignity.

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