the bad will come untrue

The Word for today:
2 Samuel 23

mark this: 2 Samuel 23:1-4 --
Now these are the last words of David.
Thus says David the son of Jesse;
Thus says the man raised up on high,
The anointed of the God of Jacob,
And the sweet psalmist of Israel:
"The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me,
And His word was on my tongue.
The God of Israel said,
The Rock of Israel spoke to me:
'He who rules over men must be just,
Ruling in the fear of God.
And he shall be like the light of the morning when the sun rises,
A morning without clouds,
Like the tender grass springing out of the earth,
By clear shining after rain.'

There is a storybook quality to the Bible for the child of God--for all who decide to go God's Way (1), following Jesus.

Underneath all of its spiritual and moral heaviness, behind its relentless display of our dark sins, shines a warm, guiding Light:
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it (2).

The child of God, turning the pages of his storyook Bible, finds that...

Our Father is kind and compassionate:
As a father pities his children, So the Lord pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust (3).

Our eldest Brother is brave and heroic. He went out to search for us when we were lost. He found us and carried us home:
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul (4).

And the selfless, whispering Holy Spirit--God's Promise to never leave us or forsake us (5), leads us in paths of righteousness for his name's sake (6).

Because of Jesus' work at the cross, God has not dealt with us according to our sins, or punished us according to our iniquities (7). The Good News--the gospel of Jesus Christ--is that God has chosen to forget our sins (8) and remember only the good things. He sees just the Jesus in us (9).

David is here called "the sweet psalmist of Israel." God has forgotten David's sins, but recorded his poems in the Bible so that they will be forever read; the story of scripture is that the bad will come untrue, while the good will prevail.

And some day--some golden someday--we will see our fearless and valiant Brother, who found us and carried us home.

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(1) see John 14:6; (2) John 1:5; (3) Psalm 103: 13-14; (4) Psalm 23:1-3; (5) see Joshua 1:5; Matthew 28:20; Luke 24:49; Acts 2:33; (6) Psalm 23:3; (7) Psalm 103:10; (8) Isaiah 38:17; (9) 2 Corinthians 5:21.