Advent · Day 5 · Thursday, December 3
A house that lasts
When your days are complete and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up after you your own offspring, who will come from your body, and I will make his kingdom secure. It is he who will build a house for my name, and I will make the throne of his kingdom firm forever.
King David wants to build God a house, a temple. God answers with a better promise: he will build David a house. Not a building but a family line, with a king whose throne lasts forever.
David’s sons did not keep that throne. Later kings lost the kingdom, and for centuries the promise looked broken.
Then an angel tells Mary that God will give her son “the throne of David his father,” and that there will be no end to his kingdom (Luke 1:32-33). God was not late. He was building.
Pray
Lord, when your promises look broken, remind me that you are still building. Thank you for Jesus, the King whose kingdom will not end. Amen.
Carry it today
Which of God’s promises feels slow to you right now?