David’s Last Words

10. March 2010 by Bernice Davis.

Hello Everyone: 

Today’s lesson has one of my favorite types of speeches in it.  I call them the death bed speeches.  They are the last and final thoughts of a person before they die.  They carry some of the most profound and powerful wisdom ever recorded. 

In today’s lesson, we will read the last words of David.  They are poetic in nature but every time I read them, I tear up knowing that his last words talked about how all along God had a plan for him “an everlasting covenant” and it had everything in it that he needed to be happy and secure.    We so often stress about what’s going to happen and how will things turn out for us when all along there is a plan for our lives designed by God,  ordered in all things and sure and it is more awesome than anything we could have planned for ourselves.

Let’s read the last words of David:

II Samuel 23: 1 These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man exalted by the Most High, the man anointed by the God of Jacob, Israel’s singer of songs: 2 “The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; his word was on my tongue. 3 The God of Israel spoke, the Rock of Israel said to me: ‘When one rules over men in righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God, 4 he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth.’ 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.”

Make it a great day and don’t forget to pray and read God’s word daily.

Stay encouraged..

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