Day 82 – When we lift ourselves up eventually we will fall hard, but when the Lord lifts up He prepares us for the fall so we will rise again.
Today’s Reading: 2 Samuel 24 – 1 Kings 2
1 Kings 1:5 “Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.”
Humanity insists that we must rise above our neighbors at all costs, but all that gets us is a bunch of wreckage to one day fall on.
It’s why Satan fell…he tried to lift himself above God. It’s why sin occurred and why Easter was necessary.
Today we find ourselves in the end of the Davidian era and the beginning of his family reign. As David prepares to go the way of the earth, his son Adonijah exalts himself to the throne. He brings the right people around him and the royal supplies necessary to take over the Kingdom. However, news quickly reaches Bathsheba, mother of Solomon, the promised heir to the throne. She goes to David on his deathbed and pleads for the truth…what should happen to she and her son, but David comforts her and declares Solomon as the Lord’s plan for the Kingship. Adonijah worried now whether Solomon would kill him because of his foolishness, but Solomon was compassionate and told his brother to go home. The kindness from Solomon brought out the sneakiness of Adonijah and quickly led to his death. Solomon, on the other hand, by the plans of the Lord, continued to be exalted over the Kingdom and would eventually be known as the Wisest man of all time.
The Lord will raise up who He will raise up, but when we try to raise ourselves up we will surely fall. Sometimes the Lord’s plan for us is to fall like the setting sun so that we can rise again in the morning, just like His Son on the 3rd Day.
See, Jesus had to fall and be buried so that our sins could be wiped away, and yet God already knew He would raise Him up to give us Eternal life, wiping us clean of our sins.
Let God lift you up to the place He wants you to be. It might not be what you thought, but it is what God had planned and more than you could ever imagine. And just think if you fall from the Lord’s placement He will catch you and put you back on your feet.
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