{"id":7105,"date":"2023-09-17T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T07:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=7105"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:33:24","slug":"1-chronicles-2913-15-now-therefore-our-god-we-thank-you-and-praise-your-glorious-name-but-who-am-i-and-who-are-my-people-that-we-should-be-able-to-offer-so-willingly-as-this-for-all-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=7105","title":{"rendered":"1 Chronicles 29:13\u201315: “Now therefore, our God, we thank You and praise Your glorious name. But who am I [David], and who are my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from You, and of Your own we have given You. For we are aliens and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without hope.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Old-time radio pastor Vernon Magee called this, \u201cOne of the greatest prayers in the Scriptures and certainly the Old Testament.\u201d Here, at the end of David’s life, he admitted that everything good that had happened in his life happened because of God. David was clearly recognizing that his<\/em> kingdom was really God’s<\/em> kingdom. He remembered his lowly beginnings as an unknown, unimportant Bethlehem shepherd boy, following sheep. He also acknowledged the great irony that everything he gave to God had really come from God in the first place.<\/p>\n

We have the same problem, don’t we? We give back to God, place back in His hands, that which is already His. We, like David, are simply travelers and sojourners, citizens of another kingdom. Our days here are as brief as a wisp of smoke, here one minute and gone the next. Since this is a truth that none of us can ignore or change, how should we then live our lives? We shoot too low when we let our highest goal in life be to just get through with minimal pain and maximum pleasure.<\/p>\n

There is a funny quote by a 100-year-old man who was interviewed by a reporter. The reporter asked, “What is the secret of living to 100 years of age?” The old man replied, “Well, you get to be 99, and then you are very, very, very careful!” But David was shouting that there was more to living life than just being careful. The Spanish philosopher and author, Miguel de Unamuno (1864\u20131936), said, “May God deny you peace, but give you glory.” He was counseling us to live life to the fullest by taking risks in our service to the Lord. David risked it all in serving God, and the world was changed because of it.<\/p>\n

“LORD, we are here for such a short time. So help us to live this day to the fullest and give back to You in service all that we are, all that we have, and all that we’re not.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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1 Chronicles 29 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>\u00a0Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen,\u00a0is yet\u00a0<\/em>young and tender, and the work\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>great: for the palace\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>not for man, but for the\u00a0LORD\u00a0God.\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for\u00a0things to be made\u00a0<\/em>of gold, and the silver for\u00a0things\u00a0<\/em>of silver, and the brass for\u00a0things\u00a0<\/em>of brass, the iron for\u00a0things\u00a0<\/em>of iron, and wood for\u00a0things\u00a0<\/em>of wood; onyx stones, and\u00a0stones\u00a0<\/em>to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver,\u00a0which\u00a0<\/em>I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0Even\u00a0<\/em>three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses\u00a0withal:\u00a0<\/em>5<\/sup>\u00a0The gold for\u00a0things\u00a0<\/em>of gold, and the silver for\u00a0things<\/em>of silver, and for all manner of work\u00a0to be made\u00a0<\/em>by the hands of artificers. And who\u00a0then\u00a0<\/em>is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the\u00a0LORD?\u00a0 6<\/sup>\u00a0Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king\u2019s work, offered willingly,\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0And they with whom\u00a0precious\u00a0<\/em>stones were found gave\u00a0them\u00a0<\/em>to the treasure of the house of the\u00a0LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the\u00a0LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy. 10<\/sup> Wherefore David blessed the\u00a0LORD\u00a0before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed\u00a0be\u00a0<\/em>thou,\u00a0LORD\u00a0God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0Thine, O\u00a0LORD,\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all\u00a0that is\u00a0<\/em>in the heaven and in the earth\u00a0is thine;\u00a0<\/em>thine\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the kingdom, O\u00a0LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0Both riches and honour\u00a0come\u00a0<\/em>of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>power and might; and in thine hand\u00a0it is\u00a0<\/em>to make great, and to give strength unto all.\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0But who\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>I, and what\u00a0is<\/em>my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things\u00a0come\u00a0<\/em>of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0For we\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>strangers before thee, and sojourners, as\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>all our fathers: our days on the earth\u00a0are<\/em>as a shadow, and\u00a0there is\u00a0<\/em>none abiding.\u00a0\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0O\u00a0LORD\u00a0our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name\u00a0cometh\u00a0<\/em>of thine hand, and\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>all thine own.\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.\u00a0\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0O\u00a0LORD\u00a0God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:\u00a0\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all\u00a0these things\u00a0<\/em>, and to build the palace,\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>the which I have made provision. 20<\/sup>\u00a0And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God. And all the congregation blessed the\u00a0LORDGod of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the\u00a0LORD, and the king.\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the\u00a0LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the\u00a0LORD, on the morrow after that day,\u00a0even\u00a0<\/em>a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:\u00a022<\/sup>And did eat and drink before the\u00a0LORD\u00a0on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed\u00a0him\u00a0<\/em>unto the\u00a0LORD\u00a0to be<\/em>the chief governor, and Zadok\u00a0to be\u00a0<\/em>priest. 23<\/sup>\u00a0Then Solomon sat on the throne of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.\u00a024<\/sup>\u00a0And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.\u00a0\u00a025<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him\u00a0such\u00a0<\/em>royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel. 26<\/sup>\u00a0Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.\u00a027<\/sup>And the time that he reigned over Israel\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three\u00a0years<\/em>reigned he in Jerusalem.\u00a028<\/sup>\u00a0And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.\u00a029<\/sup>\u00a0Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,\u00a0\u00a030<\/sup>\u00a0With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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