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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
1 Chronicles 29:21-30
It is a great day of feasting, and a milestone in the history of the people of Israel! Sacrifices are offered, the people eat and drink and rejoice in the presence of God. Then, for the second time, Solomon is proclaimed king, and anointed unto the LORD. He sits "on the throne of the LORD". The majesty and dominion conferred on the son of David foreshadows that period of a thousand years when Christ will reign for God over the whole earth.
The death of David "in a good old age, full of days, riches and honour" (v. 28), now closes this 1st book of Chronicles, to which we should like to give as a title the words found in Isaiah 55:3 – "the sure mercies of David". The way in which Paul quotes it (Acts 13:34) shows that it refers especially to the resurrection which David, that man of faith, awaits together with the multitude of sleeping saints. But was he not all his life an object of grace, upheld by God Himself? Dear readers, we also rejoice in the grace assured to us in Christ, both for the present time and for the future. "And of his fulness have all we (not only David) received, and grace for grace" (John 1:16).
