2 Samuel 15:23-16:23, John 18:25-19:22, Psalms 119:113-128, Proverbs 16:10-11
Today is the 30th day of May. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It’s great to be here. We are…man…we’re staring at the end of the 5th month of the year and today happens to be the 150th day of the year. So, we are clearly making progress, step-by-step, day-by-day as we move deeper into the Bible and move deeper into our year together and spending some time reading through the book of second Samuel and the story of King David’s life. David’s life is not going so well right now where we are in the story. He has had to grab his government and his household and flee Jerusalem because his son Absalom has initiated a coo against his father that is gaining substantial momentum. And we will pick up that story. Second Samuel chapter 15 verse 23 through 16 verse 23 today and we’re reading from the New International Version this week.
Commentary:
Jesus on this day that we come to the last retelling of your sacrifice, your crucifixion, we see the injustice of it, we see how convoluted it all was, we see the drops of blood in the suffering of the beating that you received in the crown of thorns upon your head. These are images that are familiar because they’re so riveting and so deeply ingrained as a part of our faith in you. And, so, we stop…we stop here…understand that you went through this, you suffered this because of your love and obedience to the father and because of your profound love for humanity, which represents every single one of us who are breathing right now and everyone who has gone before us. Everything that comes next for us in the New Testament as we begin to read the story of what happened next and as we begin to move into some letters later on, its all overshadowed by what we’ve read about today, that you would become a sacrifice in order to rescue us. And, so, we take these moments to thank you and to acknowledge. Nothing remaining in the Bible and nothing else remaining in our lives would matter without this. And, so, we are grateful. We have acknowledged at every point that we’ve come to this story so far this year that there are no words, there really aren’t any string of sentences that would in any way adequately acknowledge what we’re talking about here. Words fail us. It’s almost better that we remain silent as a way to honor this.
Prayer:
We invite You, Holy Spirit, into this day, and we ask that You keep the image of the cross before us today as we contemplate this, as we meditate upon it, as we understand just how profoundly impacting to the entire world it is and how irreversibly it has changed our lives. It’s very easy for us to just blow by this but we should be thinking about it every day with a grateful heart. We don’t deserve to be here. We don’t deserve to be able to talk to You. We certainly don’t deserve to be in a relationship with You. You came for us, not the other way around. And, so, may our lives reflect our gratitude today in everything that we do and say, in every interaction that we have, in every conversation that we participate, in every choice that we make. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the mighty name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.
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