9/5/2010 7:18:23 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My
Worship Time Focus: What the covenant meant to David
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2Samuel 7:1-9
Message of the verses: “ 1
¶ Now it came about when the king lived
in his house, and the LORD had given him rest on every side from all his
enemies, 2 that the king said to Nathan
the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God
dwells within tent curtains." 3
Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that is in your mind, for the
LORD is with you."
4 ¶ But in the same night the
word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying, 5
"Go and say to My servant David, ’Thus says the LORD, "Are you
the one who should build Me a house to dwell in? 6 "For I have not dwelt in a house since
the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; but I
have been moving about in a tent, even in a tabernacle. 7 "Wherever I have gone with all the sons
of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, which I
commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ’Why have you not built Me a
house of cedar?’"’ 8 "Now
therefore, thus you shall say to My servant David, ’Thus says the LORD of
hosts, "I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler
over My people Israel. 9 "I have
been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from
before you; and I will make you a great name, like the names of the great men
who are on the earth.”
This
SD begins chapter four in Warren Wiersbe’s commentary on the books of 2Samuel
and 1Chronicles. He entitles this
chapter “David’s Dynasty, Kindness, and Conquests,” and it covers chapters 7-10
of 2Samuel and chapters 17-19 of 1Chronicles.
I truly enjoy studying the two books together because one is an
historical view and one is a view from the priests. Chapter seven is about the Davidic Covenant
even though it is not mentioned as a covenant until chapter twenty-three where
it is written, “"Truly is not my house so with God? For He has made an
everlasting covenant with me, Ordered in all things, and secured; For all my
salvation and all my desire, Will He not indeed make it grow?”
David
had it in his heart to build a House for the Lord, yet David did not get to do
this task that he deeply desired to do.
David’s son Solomon would be the one who would do this. Dr. Wiersbe points out a verse in 2 Cor.
Which is actually speaking about giving to help his readers understand what was
going on in David’s heart, and also can go on in my heart: “The important thing is to be willing to give
as much as we can—that is what God accepts, and no one is asked to give what he
has not got.”
David
had vowed to the Lord that he would build Him a temple and this can be seen in
Psalm 132:1-5. “1 ¶ «A Song of Ascents.» Remember, O LORD, on
David’s behalf, All his affliction; 2
How he swore to the LORD And vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob, 3 "Surely I will not enter my house, Nor
lie on my bed; 4 I will not give sleep
to my eyes Or slumber to my eyelids, 5
Until I find a place for the LORD, A dwelling place for the Mighty One
of Jacob.’”
This
is the first time that the prophet Nathan is mentioned in the Scriptures and he
was a very important person in the life of David. Nathan was the one who came and spoke to
David about his sin with Bathsheba and he is the one who would make sure that
Solomon was crowned king after David.
David had four children by his wife Bathsheba as recorded in 1Chronicles
3:1-5, and I am not sure if this takes into account the one who died, but at
any rate there are a couple of things that are interesting to me as I read
about David’s sons with Bathsheba, the first is that Solomon was not the first
born after the child that died, and the second is that one of his sons by her
is named Nathan. I have read that the
line of Mary, the mother of Jesus, came through the line of Nathan, and Joseph
came through the line of Solomon. Also
the name mentioned in 1Chronicles 3:5 is Bath-shua, which Dr. Wiersbe points
out that scholars concur is Bathsheba.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: What I seen in this section is the heart of
David being in the right place and this was seen from the passage that was
mentioned in 2Cor. about giving to the Lord.
I want my desires to all be godly, not making up some false desire to
try and please the Lord, but allow the Holy Spirit to give me desires that will
be pleasing to the Lord.
My
Steps of Faith for Today:
1. Give
myself to the Lord for worship and service.
2. Trust
the Holy Spirit to show me any unconfessed sin in order to confess it and
repent of it.
3. Put
on the Spiritual armor to be protected from the wiles of the enemy.
4. Continue
to learn contentment.
5. Trust
the Lord to guide my path this morning.
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