Welcome to the Pauline Family's "Year of the Bible"! I'm reading the Bible clear through this year, and I invite you to read along with me. But first, let us pray:
My God, I adore and thank your loving and wise Providence, manifested on every page of Sacred Scripture. You have always been close to sinful and erring humanity, and have indicated the way and given hope. Amid the shadows of error and corruption, you kindled the light of your truth; amid universal corruption, you are the Just One; amid so much idolatry, humanity in every corner of the earth has cultivated a sincere worship of you.
Let my reading today increase my trust in your goodness, your mercy, and your unfailing faithfulness.
Today's chapters are 2 Samuel 7-9 and because it is Sunday, Psalms 37-38.
Here it is! The great promise and prophecy of a "house" (or dynasty) of David, and a "Son of David" to whom God himself "will be a father, and he a son"; whose royal "throne will be firmly established forever." God is swearing an oath; making a covenant with David (see Psalm 89:3-4). It is the final covenant of the Old Testament, and in words that bring us (conceptually, at least) to the threshold of the Gospel. (There will still be another thousand years before that "fullness of time.")
When the Archangel Gabriel is sent to Nazareth to present God's plan to the Virgin Mary, he will speak in words drawn from 2 Samuel 7: "He will be great and will be called son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
Start reading 2 Samuel here. and the Psalms here.
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