Read: 2 Samuel 7:8-16
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. (Matt. 1:1)
I once asked a group of students to write letters to their future selves. They composed notes to themselves five years in the future, and then I tucked them away. “How do we know we’ll get them again?” the students asked. “You have to trust that I’ll send them to you,” I replied. “I promise.” Even though I moved across the country in the middle of those five years, I held on to those notes and kept my promise.
God made many promises to his people. God promised Abraham that he would bless all people on earth through Abraham’s descendants (Gen. 12:3). One thousand years later, God made a more specific promise to David: “I will raise up your offspring after you . . . your throne shall be established forever” (2 Sam. 7:12, 16). When Matthew calls Jesus “the son of David, the son of Abraham,” he is saying that all these years later, those promises to Abraham and David are now being fulfilled. Jesus is the one who will bless all people on earth, and the one whose throne will be established forever.
In 2 Corinthians 1:20, Paul writes that “all the promises of God find their Yes in [Jesus].” Are there any promises God has made in the Bible that you feel you have not yet seen fulfilled in your own circumstances? Ask him today to fulfill those promises for you. Think about the ways that Jesus may be the answer you are looking for.
As you pray, ask God to show you how he is fulfilling his promises.
About the Author
Sarah Sanderson is the author of The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate. She lives with her husband and their four teenage children in Oregon.
