II Samuel 7: 2, 11, 16
The king said to Nathan the Prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the Ark of God dwells within tent curtains."
... The Lord declares to you that the Lord will make a house for you.
And your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.
David wanted to build a house for the Lord to dwell in, a Temple, instead of the tent of the Tabernacle that was carried through the desert for 40 years.
God was pleased that David had concern for the Lord's dwelling place, that he considered that the Lord's house should be grander than his own.
But God told him that He would build a house for him, a dynasty that will last forever. And that his son would build the Temple.
His son Solomon did build the Temple, a magnificent edifice. And David's dynasty had an interruption, but God kept track of it, so that Jesus was born with the genetic and legal right to rule; and He will rule as King forever.
O my Father, thank You so much for Your faithfulness to Your Word! You know what You have planned for this World of people on this Earth, and since You see the end from the beginning, You are able to confidently tell us what You will accomplish, before it comes to pass. You will see to it that it works out just as You have planned.
You have Your Grand Plan of the Universe, and You have also planned out each of our lives, as parts of that Grand Plan. Your Plans are our future, but You see them as our past, already accomplished.
O Father, I am still waiting to see how You will work out my life from this point on. I thought I could see what is coming, a part of it, but even that keeps getting postponed. And I am still stuck here.
Please help me to not be discouraged, but grow my patience as I learn to depend harder on You. I know You love me more than I can imagine, and what You have for me is better than I could want, or even think of.
Help me to think Your thoughts, Father, not my thoughts, so that my ways will conform to Your ways. Give me Your attitudes on all the controversial issues of this day, so that I can work for the benefit of Your Kingdom, not my own little world. Enlarge my boundaries so that I will see with Your eyes and my influence for Your ways will extend to the uttermost part of the Earth.
Then send me, Father, to those far corners to give credence to what I write, to rejoice with those who You have called to Yourself through my meager efforts, anointed with the oil of Your Spirit.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
