{"id":7667,"date":"2016-06-14T00:05:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T07:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7667"},"modified":"2016-06-13T12:27:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T19:27:37","slug":"wearing-the-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2016\/06\/14\/wearing-the-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearing the Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"

God gave David his word,
\nhe won\u2019t back out on this promise:
\n\u201cOne of your sons
\nI will set on your throne;
\nIf your sons stay true to my Covenant
\nand learn to live the way I teach them,
\nTheir sons will continue the line\u2014
\nalways a son to sit on your throne.
\nYes\u2014I, God, chose Zion,
\nthe place I wanted for my shrine;
\nThis will always be my home;
\nthis is what I want, and I\u2019m here for good.
\nI\u2019ll shower blessings on the pilgrims who come here,
\nand give supper to those who arrive hungry;
\nI\u2019ll dress my priests in salvation clothes;
\nthe holy people will sing their hearts out!
\nOh, I\u2019ll make the place radiant for David!
\nI\u2019ll fill it with light for my anointed!
\nI\u2019ll dress his enemies in dirty rags,
\nbut I\u2019ll make his crown sparkle with splendor.\u201d (Psalm 132:11-18)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Treaties and other contracts are simple things: they lay out the expectations that two parties have for one another. Assuming that both parties are honest, everything will go smoothly. In a treaty with God, there should be great confidence that he\u2019ll do exactly what he says he\u2019ll do. His promise regarding Zion\u2014another name for Jerusalem\u2014should have put the people at ease. All they had to do was love God\u2014and how hard was that when all he offered them was prosperity and happiness? <\/p>\n

And yet, human beings are perverse creatures. We love ourselves, but we\u2019re afraid no one else does and so we devote ourselves to looking out for our best interests, or what we think are our best interests. God\u2019s people only trusted themselves, and so they went off on their own, forgetting what God had promised. <\/p>\n

He had not promised them only happiness, no matter what. He had promised them happiness in exchange for their loyalty. If they betrayed him\u2014well, he had made a promise about that, too: the opposite of happiness. And God keeps all his promises, both good and bad. <\/p>\n

No matter how far the people strayed from him, he guaranteed them that he would bring them back and fulfill every good thing he had ever promised. Ultimately, no matter how far they ran, no matter how hard they tried to get away, God would hunt them down and bless them.<\/p>\n

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