[Yahweh Sabaoth said to David via the prophet Nathan]: “... Now I will make your name great, like the names of the greatest men of the earth.”
2 Samuel 7:9b NIV
Then King David went in and sat before Yahweh, and he said:
"Who am I, O Adonai Yahweh, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far? And as if this were not enough in your sight, O Adonai Yahweh, you have also spoken about the future of the house of your servant. Is this your usual way of dealing with man, O Adonai Yahweh ?
"What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Adonai Yahweh. For the sake of your word and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made it known to your servant.
"How great you are, O Adonai Yahweh!”
2 Samuel 7:18-22a NIV
[Yahweh, thank you for the ways you have blessed me. Who am I to deserve it?]
Friday, April 9, 2010
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I enjoyed this. My spcripture reading and meditation today was along the same lines (Luke 18). Jesus is comparing the Pharisee and the Tax Collector who said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'
This attitude, "Who am I to deserve it?" is what invites into our lives the grace of God.
14"I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
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