Strangers

1 Chronicles 29:15-17 – For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding. O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own. I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.

Psalm 39:12 – “Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.

Job 8:9 – For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

Psalm 15:2-5 – He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend; in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change; who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Application:

• ·         David lived this life before God only as a pilgrim passing through.
• ·         Our days are but a shadow on earth.
• ·         Those who fear the Lord are those who honor God and order their lives in accordance with His will because of their reverence for Him.

All Scripture verses taken from ESV