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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
1 Kings 8:12-30
King Solomon now speaks. Taking the place of Aaron’s descendant, he himself fills the office of priest because he is a type of Christ, King and Priest. He recalls the past: Egypt, the grace shown to David, the covenant and the promises.
Four hundred and eighty years earlier, on the shore of the Red Sea, the Israelites had sung the song of deliverance: "He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation . . . Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation . . . Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established." (Exodus 15:2; Exodus 15:13; Exodus 15:17). Nearly five centuries have been necessary for these words to reach their fulfilment. The passage of time takes nothing away from the reality of God’s promises (cf. 2 Peter 3:4). In the same way, Solomon is happy to repeat, "The LORD God . . . hath with his hand fulfilled it . . . hath performed his word that he spake" (vv. 15, 20).
"Thou hast said, My name shall be there" (v. 29). Once again we may recall the promise of the Lord Jesus, "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them" (Matthew 18:20).
