The Chronicler continues to focus on the theme of loyalty by covering the coronation of David as King. All of the 13 tribes are represented here as pledging their allegiance to David as the Lord’s anointed. Amasi spoke for all of them as the Spirit of the Lord filled him with wisdom and He blessed David. God has made a covenant with him as He did with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses. As with them, all who aid David will be blessed because David was God’s man and he had remained faithful to God in the midst of adversity. Saul, we must recall, did not remain loyal to the call of the Lord and so he lost his blessing and his life.
In today’s world we Christian are often called to pledge our loyalty to the Lord. Our culture promotes relativism and political correctness. Our national culture declares that there is no absolute truth when it comes to spiritual beliefs. One may believe in any spiritual higher power (even the divinity of the self) for they are all the same. Jesus is equal to any god or goddess or spiritual entity or higher power. Thus there are many ways to reach God. Sin is relative and is defined by the individual. The only absolute cultural “sin” is to say that Christianity or any religion is the only one true faith, that all others are vain and empty.
We Christians are daily called on to stand up and declare our loyalty to Jesus. He alone is God and any other god is either not real of demonic, thus not equal to Him in any way Him. To say that other religions contain a pathway to the same God, as some Christians claim to do, is the same as calling God a liar. Jesus declares He is the way, the truth and the life. And we must agree. Yet though we say this at a great cost of opposition, anger, and loss, those who oppose Christianity will lose out on a great blessing of eternal life. We are not really helping them by confirming their misguided beliefs.
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