ASLC Devotions -- Tuesday

 ⁸Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, observe and search out all the commandments of the Lord your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you for ever. 1 Chronicles 28:8

King David is in the midst of giving a speech about what he wasn't able to accomplish -- mainly because God had different plans for him -- and what his son Solomon will do, when we read this verse. I would guess, from what I know about David, that he would have liked to have done more, that he would have liked to have built the temple, the sanctuary for God. But as a man of faith who listened to God, he respected that building the resting place for the ark of the covenant was not for him to do. 

And so the task passes on to the next generation. We might not be in the business, as a church, of passing on land to those who come after us, but we are given many things that we are to leave for those who come next -- our faith, our hope, our heritage, our songs. I give thanks for the inheritance of faith that we have received from our ancestors, and I give thanks for the passing of these gifts that I see taking place around me. 

Peace, 
Pastor Jenn