9/1/2010 7:56:13 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: David formed political alliances
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: 2Sam. 5:11-16; 1Chron. 3:5-9; 14:1-7
Message of the verses: “11 ¶
Then Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees and
carpenters and stonemasons; and they built a house for David. 12 And David realized that the LORD had
established him as king over Israel, and that He had exalted his kingdom for
the sake of His people Israel. 13
Meanwhile David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he
came from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David. 14 Now these are the names of those who were
born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, 15 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, 16 Elishama, Eliada and Eliphelet.
“5 These were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea,
Shobab, Nathan and Solomon, four, by Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel; 6 and Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet, 7 Nogah, Nepheg and Japhia, 8 Elishama, Eliada and Eliphelet, nine. 9 All these were the sons of David, besides the
sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.
“1
¶ Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers
to David with cedar trees, masons and carpenters, to build a house for him.
2 And David realized that the LORD had
established him as king over Israel, and that his kingdom was highly exalted,
for the sake of His people Israel. 3 Then
David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons
and daughters. 4 These are the names of
the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, 5 Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet, 6 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, 7 Elishama, Beeliada and Eliphelet.”
There
is one verse in all of this Scripture that seems to me to be the most important
verse and that is verse 12: “12 And David realized that the LORD had
established him as king over Israel, and that He had exalted his kingdom for
the sake of His people Israel.” I see in
this verse that David realized that the Lord chose him to do something special
in the nation of Israel, and for the nation of Israel, and also that it was God
who was doing the work to exalt the kingdom of Israel.
I
also see that David is still on his way up in trusting the Lord to continue to
accomplish things through David and this will continue until David seems to get
board and decides to stay home when there were still battles to fight.
The
alliance that David made with Hiram king of Tyre was a good one for Hiram, for
this would protect him and continue to give him access to the sea without fear
of being attacked by Israel. Latter on
Tyre would grow prideful and have to be disciplined by the Lord.
Both
David and his son Solomon broke the law of having multiple wives and this was
surely part of their downfall as they would have many family problems to
contend with because of having many wives.
Jacob had experienced these problems too, but it doesn’t seem that
either David or Solomon had paid any attention to this part of the life of
Jacob to learn from it. Both David and
Solomon were descended from Jacob’s wife Leah who was Jacob’s first wife even
though he was tricked into marrying her.
When God is not allowed to rule in our lives he will then overrule
because God’s plans will prevail even when we disobey His Law.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: The Bible makes it clear that believers today
are both kings and priests and so I have to believe this is true of me. I realize that the human nature in me makes
me want to think of David’s sin with Bathsheba when I think of David, yet I
need to think of the fact that God said of David that he was a man after My own
heart and learn from his life why this was true so that I too can be a man
after God’s heart. If I am to be blessed
like David I need to learn to live like David lived and have a heart like David
had.
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
Give myself to the Lord for worship and service
today.
2.
Trust the Lord to search my heart for unconfessed
sin in order for me to deal with it.
3.
Continue to learn contentment through the trials
that I am going through.
4.
Continue to help my wife grow spiritually.
5.
Continue to realize that I am in a battle and that I
have an enemy and that I need to be protected by the spiritual armor: the belt
of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel of peace,
the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit.
9/1/2010 8:41:47 AM
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