This morning I am led to 2 Samuel as I study the word “redeem”. In the passage, King David is crying out to the Lord with thanksgiving for the redemption that was/is provided by God.
“28And now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. 29Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord GOD, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever.” – 2 Samuel 7:28-29 (ESV)
David is grateful to God for the blessings given. Not so much the monetary items given, but the love and grace given. David understood here that all that is of his house is/was provided by God and for that he should be thankful and lift God up.
I believe that I (and likely you) miss the love and grace as I focus on the fact that I do not have something. I find myself angry or frustrated that God has not given me that which I think the world would deem a reward for being a Christian. But I have to remember it is not the world I am to be concerned with. I should be working daily to please God and that pleasure will bring blessings well beyond what this world can give.
David recognized the redemption provided by God as he spoke with Him here.
“20And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord GOD! 21Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it. 22Therefore you are great, O LORD God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 23And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods? 24And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O LORD, became their God.” – 2 Samuel 7:20-24 (ESV)
I have been redeemed, and as such I am God’s people forever. I have to remember that each and every day and just as David does here, I should be showing God my gratitude for that redemption each day as I remember.
Thank you Lord GOD for all that you have provided and will provide for me. I love you Lord with all of me!
Are you aware of the redemption provided to you by God? What is your attitude toward that redemption? Are you redeemed and thankful daily?
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