May 25 "He Can Set Your Heart Right" I Chronicles 23-25

There is Something about getting older 

that makes you want to go shore up, be pensive, say something that matters. 

And the sun sets on yet another day.

These psalms we have just read from the now-aged soul of a young man 

who once, more than once, hit bottom 

and spent a lifetime rising up in rescue. These psalms are grace words 

for me.  For you.  This circumstance.

Whether the psalm is like a hammer breaking us to pieces or melting hearts 

like snow or even oxygen that we can 

catch our breath this shortness of life---these psalms never ever become old. 

But God doesn't look at accomplishment quite like we do.  No big people and no little people in His Kingdom.  Keep the charge this day, no matter where you are.  David kept on building the temple.  Keep on keeping on building this temple in which we live---to our dying day.  For etched in David's mind was I Chronicles 22:19:  Set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God.  Arise and Build.

"David was old and full of days."  I Chron 23:1.  And my ears perk up.  Because I. am. full. of. 20,000 days.  He made Solomon his son king over Israel.  So, here's the son acceptable in the eyes of God no more, no less than his father---a man after God's own heart.  May we all do the work before us today, fitting together, because we are:  letters of Christ, 2 Corinthians 3:2, cared for by many, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God.  Not on tablets of stones but on tablets of human hearts.  Oh God!  

COME BOLDLY:  Timeless Prayers
Father, find us faithful in our corners today, whether we live in charge or conforming.  Make our souls rise up like you did David from the very depths of his dark days.  May we "arise and build" and know you are with us.  That's all that matters, anyway.

PHOTO:  Picture out my car window.  The sun sets tonight and I'm pensive in closing a school year.  Did it count?  May I be more concerned about the measures of my heart than the measures of success.