The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in 1 Chronicles 14:17,
"So David's fame spread throughout every land, and the Lord made all the nations fear him."
Why did the Lord make all the nations fear him? We have seen that David was not a perfect man. He was a man of bloodshed (disqualifying him from building a temple for the Lord in Jerusalem), and he was capable of adultery and murder in the case of Uriah and Bathsheba.
It seems to me that at times we get the notion that the Lord only does things relative to us based on our moral performance before him. While not discounting that reality in any way, there are certainly other reasons the Lord involves us in what he does.
In the case of David, while he was not a man without sin, and certainly not a man who had earned the favor he received from the Lord by a perfect report card of morality, David was God's man.
David was a man of faith and as God had a plan to use the nation Israel as a key component to roll out his program of redemption of mankind, David, as a man of faith who gave himself to the Lord, fit perfectly in the hands of what the Lord wanted to accomplish.
My take away on this is that not only is it important that I live a life worthy of what the Lord has called me to (do my best to keep myself from sin), it is also important for me to understand what it is the Lord is doing and determine how it is I can fit into what it is the Lord is doing.
The Lord's agenda today is the building of his family, his kingdom. How do I fit into his pursuit of that? How has he gifted me to further that agenda along? How might I participate? It is here that our lives find ultimate purpose and meaning, ultimate fulfillment.
"So David's fame spread throughout every land, and the Lord made all the nations fear him."
Why did the Lord make all the nations fear him? We have seen that David was not a perfect man. He was a man of bloodshed (disqualifying him from building a temple for the Lord in Jerusalem), and he was capable of adultery and murder in the case of Uriah and Bathsheba.
It seems to me that at times we get the notion that the Lord only does things relative to us based on our moral performance before him. While not discounting that reality in any way, there are certainly other reasons the Lord involves us in what he does.
In the case of David, while he was not a man without sin, and certainly not a man who had earned the favor he received from the Lord by a perfect report card of morality, David was God's man.
David was a man of faith and as God had a plan to use the nation Israel as a key component to roll out his program of redemption of mankind, David, as a man of faith who gave himself to the Lord, fit perfectly in the hands of what the Lord wanted to accomplish.
My take away on this is that not only is it important that I live a life worthy of what the Lord has called me to (do my best to keep myself from sin), it is also important for me to understand what it is the Lord is doing and determine how it is I can fit into what it is the Lord is doing.
The Lord's agenda today is the building of his family, his kingdom. How do I fit into his pursuit of that? How has he gifted me to further that agenda along? How might I participate? It is here that our lives find ultimate purpose and meaning, ultimate fulfillment.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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