When it came time for David to be received by his people, he made this plea to the house of Judah: why have ye been the last to bring back the king, ye who are my brethren, my own flesh and blood?
This incident is a beautiful reminder of the incarnation of the Lord Jesus, whereby He was made the near kinsman of the Saints - our own flesh and bone. Therefore David's appeal to the wayward men of Judah has a similar applicability to all of humanity, but especially to the Redeemed - will we not receive the Lord Jesus, the King of Glory, Who has been clothed with our humanity and taken upon Himself the burdens and sorrows of His people?
Christ has the right to rule the world apart from the incarnation - He always has been God of very God, and all man owes Him an unconditional duty to obedience and worship.
But He has obtained another, more personal and closer claim to that obedience: He has become like unto us, yet without sin. He has shown us the Father; He has manifest the glory of the Godhead, and become its express image.
By this act of supreme condescension, He has forever swept away the agnostic's false claim that he cannot believe God because He cannot be seen. How gracious has been His approach unto rebellious men!
Surely David's plea, "Oh why will ye not receive your own flesh and blood as King," has a direct appeal to the Saints as well.
How often we grow cold to the Savior, forgetting He is our near kinsman!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
