Now David said, “Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, famous and glorious throughout all countries. I will now make preparation for it.” So David made abundant preparations before his death. 1 Chronicles 22:5
I asked the Lord, "How is your day, Lord?" And the answer was, "Magnificent!" That answer just does not seem like many of my days at all. We look around at the news reports, hear from our family and friends, and see what is going on in our life, and magnificent seems like a few and far between sort of description to use. Perhaps the person who won the lottery last week used it a few times. Maybe that starlet in Hollywood who won the big part over 200 rivals got to use it for that one day. It may well be that back a few years you or I was able to use magnificent to describe one day out of hundreds, perhaps thousands. Yet, it seems to me that the Lord our God would use it every day and all day.
What about that day, we might ask of the Lord, as we recall from the Bible a day when something happened that would seem to shake the Lord's hold on magnificence just a bit. Well, it certainly was a bad day for Adam and Eve when they disobeyed for that first time. A certain day was bad for Moses when he... And on it goes as we discover bad days for everyone but the Lord. "I know," we say with earthly superiority, "what about the day Your Son died on the cross?" Uh, huh, the day of His greatest victory over sin and death. And we get emotional at this point.
I don't know how You do it, Lord!
Bucky
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