Tues.’s Devo - It’s All in the Name

Read: 1 Chronicles 26:12-27:34; Romans 4:13-5:5; Psalm 14:1-7; Proverbs 19:17
I could spend hours looking up all these names and finding out what God is saying through them if I had all day. But… I did look up a few and this is what I found. East stands for beginning because our sins are removed as far as the east is from the west and the sun rises in the east starting our day. The man who was the gatekeeper of the East Gate was Shelemiah whose name means “the peace offering”. Jesus is our peace offering and this is the way into life. But you exit the West Gate which had two mentioned gatekeepers. One was Shuppim which means “bared ones; serpents” and the other man was Hosah which means “covered”. In the end there will be two types of people the naked and the covered. North means the spiritual and South means the natural. The man standing at the North Gate was Zechariah which means “remembered of Jehovah” and the man at the South Gate was Obed-Edom which means “serving Edom” or in other words, serving man.
The officer in charge of the treasuries was Shubael whose name means “the return of God”. In the treasuries were all the spoils of war. They were things dedicated by David, Samuel, Saul, Abner and Joab.
David’s army consisted of 24,000 men who changed monthly according to their time of duty. Then there were officers from each tribe along with men in charge of the storehouses in the towns, villages and watchtowers, and those in charge of farming the fields, the vineyards, the olive and fig trees, the cattle, donkeys, flocks, herbs and all of King David’s property.
This was the time leading up to Israel’s greatest prosperity. We get the picture of how organized God is and how the body of Christ should work when everyone is operating in their gifts.
In Romans, we read that Abraham believed against all hope. Physically, there was no way Abraham could father a son at the age of 100 and that Sarah could have a baby, but Abraham believed if God said it, it would happen. His faith, added with God’s Word brought the promise. His faith also made him righteous with God as a picture to us that our faith makes us righteous with Him. Faith gives us access to God’s grace. So we, like Abraham can rejoice when we have to suffer waiting for the promise to be fulfilled. This waiting developed perseverance which leads to character and character leads to hope which does not disappoint. We know this because we have God’s love poured out in our hearts.
Lord, show us our place of service in your kingdom. May we exercise patience that leads to joy.