Today is Wednesday, July 17, 2019, and here is your daily devote. In this passage, we have seen one of the clearest pictures of grace between people in the Bible. King David extended undeserved kindness to one who was as good as dead in Israel, but we need to be careful to see ourselves properly in this story. We are not to read ourselves into the story as David, but rather Mephibosheth.
We are not the one's extended kindness from his position of power, but receiving kindness from a position of desperation and weakness. We were dead in our sins and opened rebellion against God, spiritually crippled men and women. But God has extended kindness and mercy to us. He sent his son to redeem us from the curse and bring us under his blessing forever.
And now, only after first seeing the story through the lens of Mephibosheth, are we able to also see ourselves in David's role? We are called on to extend God's kindness to others and show them mercy, love and grace of our King. Who needs this kindness from you? How can you be a vessel of this grace to someone this week in your neighborhood or classroom or team or office?
Think about this. How do our lives imitate Mephibosheth in this story? How should our lives imitate David's actions in this story? What acts of kindness might you display this week to those who may have physical or mental differences?
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