“In those days and at that time I will raise up a righteous descendantfrom King David’s line. He will do what is just and right throughout the land. In that day Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will live in safety. And this will be its name: ‘The LORD Is Our Righteousness.’ Jeremiah 33:15-16 NLT
The year is about 600 BC. For 800 years the Israelites had been breaking their covenant with God, and for 400 years the sons of David, with few exceptions had been violating the covenant their father had made with God. Now the bill for all that is about to come due: the Davidic line is going to seem to come to an end and the Israelites are going to be dragged out of their land by Babylon.
But what does God intend? Is he going to abandon David and the people in final exasperation? No! He had promised a day when somehow the covenant would be written on people’s hearts and not merely on stone tablets (Jer 31:31-34). And here he promises a descendant of David who will be what a descendant of David should be. What a God! What incredible grace! By every right after hundreds of years of disobedience and rebellion, he should have washed his hands of them. But he does not. Why?
The answer lies in the name given to Yahweh in verse 16. Yahweh will do what is right for the world in spite of all the challenges. That is why he chose Israel and that is why he chose David, that through them he could bring light for our darkness, and he was not going to let the failure of some prevent that. Instead, he was going to crown the faith of the faithful with the longing of their hearts. He was going to send the true David to blot the sinful record from human hearts so that the Holy Spirit could take up residence there and write God’s Instructions (torah)on those hearts. Through the true David, we can live in the light, as 1 John 1:7 promises us. Are you living in the fulness of that light today? Is God’s life of love being reproduced in your behavior? If not, why not? The Son of David has come to make it possible. Claim what is yours! Live in the Light!
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