Right with God

David’s words strike me here.

Is it not true my house is with God?
For he has established a permanent covenant with me,
ordered and secured in every detail.

Will he not bring about
my whole salvation and my every desire? (2 Samuel 23:5)

Obviously, David is talking about the specific covenant that God made with him, that God would establish a house for him, a dynasty that would last forever. (2 Samuel 7)

And God will ultimately fulfill that promise in Jesus.

But through Jesus, we also have a permanent covenant, ordered and secured in every detail. It brings about our whole salvation, and ultimately our every desire. Desires for righteousness, justice, peace, and love.

It is permanent, ordered, and secured because Jesus took care of everything for us on the cross, and is not dependent on our efforts to be righteous.

Our house, our lives, are right with God because God has clothed us with the perfect righteousness of Jesus.

As Paul wrote,

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love that he had for us, made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in trespasses.

You are saved by grace! He also raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavens in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might display the immeasurable riches of his grace through his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift— not from works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians 2:4-9)