Thursday, August 02, 2007

Psalm 15:4

Who may abide in the tabernacle, in God's holy hill?
He who swears to his own hurt and does not change.

How often the Lord swears His promise in the Old Testament to the patriarchs! He swears to Adam and Eve that the Seed would crush the serpent's head. He swears to Noah that He will not destroy the world with water again. He swears to Abraham that He would make of him a great nation, and that his son would save the nationS. He swears to Jacob that the land would be given to him. He swears to David that his son would sit on the throne forever. And those examples just scratch the surface.

God swore to His own hurt. Isaiah 53 and the ends of the Gospel accounts show how much it hurt Him to make those promises. Still, He would not renege on the promise; He would not change.

1 comment:

  1. What sweet comfort it gives me that Christ is the one who swears to his own hurt for me. Otherwise the answer to who may abide in the holy hill would be no one.

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