11 Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. 13 And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.
14 “But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you. 15 For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding. 16 O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own.
My wife loves old family friendly movies, and has infected me with the disease. One of our favorites is "Yours, Mine, and Ours," about a widow and widower who each have several children, then marry, and all sorts of craziness happens. Here, in I Chronicles 29, David talks about what happened when God and His people got together. It is all one-sided. God brings allt he greatness, power, glory, majesty, riches and strenght to the relationship. We are aliens and strangers. Everything we are and have comes from Him, yet He loves us, chooses us, and makes us His family, His people. May we remember that, and keep that perspective as we humbly walk through this day.
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