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Today’s Bible Reading: 1 Chronicles 14-16

Today’s Devotional: 1 Chronicles 14:1-7

David recognizes that the Lords has not only fulfilled His promise as the next King of Israel after Saul, and not only does David have claim to the thrown by having first and above all God’s anointing for that specific calling; David also has been recognized by all of the tribes of Israel as well as those neighboring Israel.

There is unanimous recognition of God’s calling and anointing on David’s life, and David recognizes not that it’s by any means of his own or another. David recognized that it’s by God’s hand, and His alone, that He’s been established and the foundation laid.

After the foundation of anything God has called us to and which He lays, we have a choice and must be careful not to finish the work in our efforts or let others finish it b their hands. Even the smallest % by our strength, or what’s common for how the world builds and measures growth by its standards of success and posterity, cut the glory of the work from the Lord and place the reason and credit for the work on man. If we depart from God’s directions for how to build on His foundations in our lives, relationships, or within the church then we are only placing flimsy barriers and cheap trick furnishings which break with the first trial and difficulty.

David’s first wondering from God’s word and instruction was multiplying wives, and what was David’s big stumbling later? Stealing another man’s wife and murder to cover it up. We see by David’s example that even the slightest drifting away from God’s leading and instruction because of what He knows it will do in our lives and what will be harvested later on. David copied the ways of the nations and others in similar positions to him and at minimum the way in which others in similar positions seek to make their established kingdom to last. But here’s the difference David though his position may look similar to others in the nations around him, his calling and purpose could not be further from the same so therefore the way in which his calling was established as well as how it continues must also be different and not sought to copy the ways of other kings, because though they make look similar in some structure or another they are so far from the same.