2 Samuel 7:12–13: “When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.”

June 16th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional

This prophecy of “your seed” is one of many Scriptures emphasizing God’s promise of a coming Messiah, a King of Kings, who would establish David’s throne forever. Although there was a long time gap (this prophecy was given 1000 years before Jesus physically came), God’s promises to David were completely fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Jesus does reign, and will continue to reign on David’s throne forever. He is right now building the Father a magnificent house in the sense that believers are God’s temples:

Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2:4)

This New Testament picture is one of God building a spiritual temple (a spiritual house), using living stones (believers), who have surrendered to the Living Stone (Jesus). Jesus is alive and He makes us living stones because we are connected to Him, the only source of real life. We living stones are not of real use to Him until we take up our correct place in the wall of His building.

There is an ancient story about a king of Sparta, in Greece, who boasted to a visiting monarch about the mighty walls of Sparta. But as the king’s guest looked around, there were no walls in sight. Finally the guest said, “I’d like to see these walls. Show them to me!” The Spartan ruler pointed with great satisfaction to some disciplined, well-trained troops, part of Sparta’s mighty army, and exclaimed, “There they are! Those are the walls of Sparta!” Just as each Spartan soldier was viewed by their king as a brick in his mighty wall, so we are viewed by God as “living stones . . . [building] up a spiritual house.”

“LORD, use us this day, and make us solid stones, useful in Your hands as You continue to build Your house.”