"Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.” (2 Samuel 23:5)
Chapter 23 opens with this statement, “These be the last words of David”.
The closing of one year and the opening of another should be a time of both Reflection and Resolution. Here is David at the end of his life, looking back over his life and looking forward to the life to come.
This is an important text because it helps us to Evaluate all that has taken place in this past year; and it helps us to properly set our Expectation for the year to come.
This text does all that, and it does it in the Context of the Everlasting Covenant
In the opening of this chapter David is looking forward, with the eyes of faith, to Christ's Glorious Kingdom. A Kingdom in which there shall be no wickedness, and righteousness shall be the universal character of all the subjects - a perfect Family of Faith in which there shall be no unsound members, no defects, no sin, no sorrow, no deaths, no tears.
David likens this Glorious Kingdom to "a morning without clouds".
But then, in verse 5, he turns his attention from the Kingdom of God to his own kingdom - from the Family of Faith to his own earthly family - from the Household of God to his own home and in a sad statement that is full of disappointment David says, “Although, my house be not so with God”. |
