Sun.’s Devo - Return to God

Read: 1 Chronicles 15:1-16:36; Romans 1;18-32; Psalm 10;1-15; Proverbs 19;6-7 In David’s building projects he included a tent to house the Ark. Once it was built he had the priests and Levites consecrate themselves to bring up the Ark. Only they could participate in bringing the Ark to Jerusalem. All Israel was invited to the celebration. There was much singing and music and dancing. David dressed as a priest and led the way in praising the Lord. *** David’s wife, Michal, saw David dancing from her window and despised him for making a fool of himself in front of the people. She was Saul’s daughter. She stood for Saul’s lineage who tried to control the people to worship him instead of leading the people to worship God. Sometimes our greatest critics come from our own household. But, fortunately, we will read later that she was not able to have children because of this, so her control was stopped and not allowed to bear fruit in David’s posterity. *** David had written a song and gave it to the priests to deliver to the people. It praised God and gave him thanks for all he had done for them. In it, he invited all the nations to join them in worshipping the Lord. *** In Romans, Paul explained how people can know God just by observing nature. They can understand the godhead by meditating on what God has made. Since men chose not to worship or thank God for who he was, they made up in their imagination what they thought God was like. They made idols of things God made and worshipped them instead. God turned them over to their perverted minds and let them suffer in their bodies for their perversions. The list of all their offenses is given in verses 28-32. All of this was because they had traded truth for lies. *** Lord, thank you that our nation is turning back to God and that we have a President who honors and fears You. May your kingdom come to earth like it is in heaven.