Today’s passage: 2 Chronicles 6:1-11
Helpful thoughts:
- The theme of today’s passage is this, God fulfills His promises.
- Solomon acknowledges the Lord’s presence in the “thick darkness” that had descended. Solomon and Israel see and know that God has manifested His presence with them. What an amazing moment in the history of Israel!
- Solomon built a house that he hoped the Lord would dwell in forever. God’s promise to dwell in that place was contingent on the faithfulness and humble repentance of the people (2 Chronicles 7:19-20).
Questions to consider:
- How charged up and excited would this assembly have been seeing the glory and presence of God being manifested in the cloud given the fact that they had never seen anything like it, nor had several previous generations?
- What fruits should recounting the faithfulness of God produce in our lives? Because God has been and always will be faithful to His promises made to us, how then should we live?
- How is God’s mercy and grace put on display in these promises and the covenants? God knows better than we do that no man could be completely faithful as He is (Romans 3:10). In God’s covenant with Israel, in calling them to return to Him in repentance continually, what was He already offering to them in abundance? How does this offer bring Him glory and why must it result in praise? (Psalm 32:1-5)