1 Chronicles 17

May 4, 2022

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Reading along with us in 1 Chronicles? Here’s today’s reading:

1 Chronicles 17 (NIV)

God’s Promise to David
1 After David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under a tent.”
2 Nathan replied to David, “Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you.”
3 But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:
4“Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in..........Continue Reading

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  1. Who couldn’t relate to David here thanking God and wondering why such a great God would bother with us. But David reminds us that it is for God to be glorified through us! We are ambassadors of Christ, anything we have comes from Him and we should never forget that. It should drive us to do right in His eyes to be generous with our time, our money, and our lives. We are living sacrifices for Him to be glorified through and David sees that and accepts God’s blessing knowing that.

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  2. What an awesome time in David’s life. This chapter reflects all that David thinks about God and all the things God thinks about David. What great promises He gives this man identified as the man after God’s heart. He would be successful and renowned as well as have his throne established forever. This promise is also extended to his son, something any father would love to hear. And David’s response is a fitting one: praise, thanksgiving, humility, obedience and expectation. He recognizes he is not worthy and yet because God has promised it, he says, bring it on. How important it is for us to make sure blessing never takes us away from God but continues to draw us closer…making us more humble and obedient. God is worthy of it all.

    It is unfortunate that many failures follow this time of simplicity and faith. But God continues to remain faithful to David and continues to point back to him as an example of what faithfulness looks like.

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  3. It is interesting to witness such an intimate relationship between David and God. I observed that though David’s intention to build a house of cedar for God was noble, God redirected his desire and revealed His plan. In my own life, I often have “noble” plans to make Christ known but I realized I must tread through these things prayerfully and seek God’s heart and will always.

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  4. What a humbling passage. Can you imagine how David felt to have God say this about him? It makes me think of what Christ has done for us and what a faithful God we serve.

    “And David the king came and sat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
    And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant’s house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Lord God.
    What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
    O Lord, for thy servant’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
    O Lord, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.”

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