Exalted But Humble

UV 4236/10000 Exalted But Humble “Therefore may it please You to bless the house (descendants) of Your servant, that it may continue before You forever; for what You bless, O Lord is blessed forever.” I Chronicles 17 v 27 It is striking that King David states in his prayer that “what You bless, is blessed forever.” David humbled himself before God as a king and as a shepherd boy and that is why it is said of him by Jehovah that David has a heart after God. David comprehended the fullness and greatness of the Lord. He praised Him from His heart, thanked Him in his soul all the time. He attributed all the accomplishments of his rise and rule to the Lord including the slaying of Goliath that first catapulted him to national prominence. In this uni-verse, he is interceding not for himself but for his descendants. The blessing of the Lord is not temporal or material but holistic and eternal. He blesses our legacy as He blessed the legacy of David. He blessed his descendants for out of the lineage of David came the greatest human, the greatest King, the Messiah, the Saviour of the world and ruler of the universe, Jesus Christ. Jesus came at a time when the house of David had almost been obliterated, forgotten, impoverished, reviving the house of David and fulfilling the uni-verse. Through the descendant of David, Jesus are all nations and all people and all the descendants to be blessed and blessed forever. Hence, through David and the promise obtained by him by earnest and humble prayer and adoration, the word given to Abraham is fulfilled- all nations shall be blessed and they are his spiritual seed or descendants, as numerous as the stars of heaven and dust of the seashore. David though a king always retained the servant heart. Jesus manifested the Servant King role to the hilt, to the last letter. Jesus though God Himself took the form of a humble servant. We are His children by faith and grace who have inherited His blessings. We are blessed forever in Him, by Him, for His sake. Our house or our descendants are also blessed by Him, in Him forever. The Lord accomplishes His will and word through us and our house. We only need to commit to be servants like David to the Lord and He will raise us as kings and priests. We inherit the mantle and anointing of Jesus, of king, priest, prophet by grace though we are only servants. Like Jesus we are exalted before God but humble before God and man. We should like David remember always our natural genesis as fallen sinners though we now enjoy the hope and reality of the revelation that we are victorious kings, priests and prophets before the Lord forever.