Day2
Week10
2 Samuel
“That night the word of the Lord came to Nathan: Go and say to My servant David: Thus says the Lord: Do you intend to build a house for Me in which I will dwell? I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought the sons of Israel from Egypt until this day. I have been moving about with a tent as My dwelling. Wherever I have moved with all the sons of Israel, have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?””
2 Samuel 7:4-7 MEV
Cross references
1 Chronicles 17:3-6
1 Kings 8:16;
Exodus 40:18-19
Did I Ask
Would you agree that it is hard to focus on the things that we can’t see?
God doesn’t need a physical dwelling place. He is everywhere all at once.
We have a hard time understanding this concept.
God’s plan from the beginning was to be with us always. In the garden He was with Adam and Eve and talked with them.
Sin messed that up.
David longed for a good thing. He loved God and wanted a beautiful, permanent, physical home for Him.
God responded with a rhetorical question. “Did I ask?”, to put it in today’s vernacular.
David is as on the right track, He longed to be close to God and he knew that God deserves better than what he had, but God doesn’t need a physical dwelling place.
David, much like us, had a hard time focusing on the unseen.
God wants our hearts and David already gave his to God.
Action Step
““As the Father loved Me, I also loved you. Remain in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, even as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.”
John 15:9-10 MEV
His love is our dwelling place and when we keep His commandments, we are giving Him our hearts as His dwelling place.
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