Friday, March 7, 2008
1 Chronicles 17:20-22
There is none like you, O Lord, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt? And you made your people Israel to be your people forever, and you, O Lord, became their God. (ESV)
by Linda Harris
Scholars generally agree that 1 and 2 Chronicles were written long after the building of the temple took place, probably about the time the exiles began to return from Babylon. David’s reference to the Israelites’ migration from Egypt to the Promised Land (17:21) would have special meaning for the returning immigrants. God established the land of Israel in the past, and he would restore it now.
When life spins out of control and we wonder where God might be in all of it, we can look back on the past, remember what he has already done, and be confident he will do what is best.
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Daily Bible Meditations are taken from The Helping Hand,a Sabbath School student quarterly for youth and adults. Copyright © 2008, Seventh Day Baptist Board of Christian Education, Inc.
Scripture quotations marked "ESV" are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service .
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