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Day 90 or March 31. Don't ever forget tomorrow.

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Our thoughts today are from 2 Samuel chapter 24 verse 21.

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Araunah said, Why has my Lord the King come to his servant?

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To buy your threshing-floor, David answered, so I can build an altar to the Lord.

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Now the big picture surrounding this verse.

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As the book of 2 Samuel comes to a close, we are confronted by a list of David's mighty

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men, the elite of his army and bodyguard. Most of them are just names today, but each

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one represents a real individual. If you were ever brave enough to read the whole list in

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chapter 23, you will probably recognize at least one of them. Right at the very end there

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is the name of Uriah the Hittite, whose wife Bathsheba was stolen by David. He is probably

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at the end because he is no longer serving David following his murder. Maybe keeping

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him on the list was a sop to David's conscience. Finally, David buys a plot of land where he

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builds an altar, and where Solomon would build the temple.

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And now today's action step. Even as an old man David is planning for the future. He knows

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he will not be building a temple, but he plays his part in securing a suitable plot of land.

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It's the mark of a true disciple of Christ that they continue to follow him into projects

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and programs that they may never see come to fruition. The Bible is full of examples

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of people to whom God makes promises, but who never sees them fulfilled in their lifetime.

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People like Abraham, who never saw his nation of descendants, or the Apostle Paul, who was

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still planning further missionary journeys when he died.

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Walk Through the Bible was started in the UK by my wife and I, and has now been passed

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on to our younger son, who is continuing the vision we were given back in 1984. It's thrilling.

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Sometimes you get to see the end, often you don't. Our part is to play our part, and

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trust God to continue his work through other lives. Just play your part. That's all you

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have to do.