Everlasting

 DEVOTION

2^ND SAMUEL

EVERLASTING

2 Sam 23:5-7

5 "Is not my house right with God? Has he not made with me an everlasting covenant, arranged and secured in every part? Will he not bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire? 6 But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns, which are not gathered with the hand. 7 Whoever touches thorns uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear; they are burned up where they lie."

NIV

Aren't these words of David prophetic regarding the last day? But it is also prophetic regarding the everlasting covenant God has made with everyone who believes in the name of Jesus. He has arranged and secured every part of our salvation. Jesus did it all on that cross, then went to prepare, to secure a place in the heavens, an abode. Of course, the songwriter wants to say it is a mansion just over the hilltop, but Jesus did not promise a mansion, but a room in his Father’s house, whatever that looks like. Nevertheless, we have a secure place in heaven, or rather in the new city of Jerusalem that will be coming down from heaven, that has a great wall with twelve gates, each made from a single pearl. It is unclear from the Hebrew text whether the wall was two hundred feet thick or high, but either way it is a massive wall. If it is two hundred feet thick, it has to be just as high or higher, and if it is two hundred feet high, it must be very thick to support such a height. However, within that city, there is a place secured in every part for those who believe, those who are born again, or born from above, who have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior. We know that the fate of evil people, and David also makes it clear, as the LORD revealed to him, about what happens to those who live in the darkness of evil. Although David may not have understood the lake of burning sulfur, he showed the evil being burned up, as they will not be gathered by the hand of God into the everlasting place Jesus prepared for us. What a glorious sight that will be, when our Jesus, we will see, when we look upon his face, the one who saved us by his grace. However, until that day arrives, we have been called to be his witnesses, to testify to his grace and truth. He has also arranged and secured a place in the kingdom of God here on earth, doing or being the exact part of the body of Christ that he determines. Lord, we praise you for your covenant with us, that you have called us, and that you have melted us, formed us, and have filled us and are using us for the benefit of your kingdom, that you have already granted our every desire, everlasting life.