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Today’s Bible Reading: 1 Chronicles 1-2

Today’s Devotional: 1 Chronicles 1:1-28

The purpose for 1 & 2 Chronicles was to show hope to those who were returning from captivity in Babylon, those who God has worked through and been faithful to His word because of who He is even though they may have messed up.

The list of names here in 1 Chronicles 1:1-28 are meant to ring out in the hearts and minds of the worshipper of those who have trusted the Lord and His Word when He spoke to them and that even from the trials of old the Lord is true to His Word which are His promises.

The old saying of “no one ever tells you those were the good old days until after they’re gone”, the Lord has inspired the author here to write this so that Israel would not miss what the Lord was doing right there in their midst at that moment and that their focus need to be on moving forward and so we have recorded for us those who did that.

The Lord’s promises are His very eternal purposes and character. Though our circumstances or situations may look grave or because of some choice or decision of our own, the Lord is never done with using a desiring heart after Him. The Lord’s heart and desire is eternal, and any choice we make apart from placing our hope and trust in the work of Jesus Christ for our eternal salvation is temporal and is only confined to the blink of an eye while we are here on earth, but God’s plans and work are eternal.

So which trumps the other, eternal or temporal? So then as Paul is pleading with the Colossians, why trade the eternal work and desire of the Lord in our lives for a temporal fleeting and changing culture that we’ll never complete or obtain. God’s not done with Israel, nor is He done with and nor will there be a death of the Church, nor is He done with you! There may be a sifting and He is sure to do so when is needed, because the things He has planned for eternity do not come to an end.