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Day 90, or March the 31st. Don't ever forget

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tomorrow. Our thoughts today are from 2 Samuel,

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chapter 24, verse 21. Arunah said, Why has my

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lord the king come to his servant? To buy your

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threshing floor, David answered, so I can build

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an altar to the Lord. Now the big picture surrounding

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this verse. As the book of 2 Samuel comes to

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a close, we are confronted by a list of David's

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mighty men, the elite of his army and bodyguard.

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Most of them are just names today, but each one

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represents a real individual. If you were ever

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brave enough to read the whole list in chapter

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23, you will probably recognize at least one

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of them. Right at the very end, there is the

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name of Uriah the Hittite, whose wife Bathsheba

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was stolen by David. He is probably at the end

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because he is no longer serving David following

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his murder. Maybe keeping him on the list was

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a sop to David's conscience. Finally, David buys

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a plot of land where he builds an altar, and

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where Solomon would build the temple. And now

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today's action step. Even as an old man, David

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is planning for the future. He knows he will

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not be building a temple, but he plays his part

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in securing a suitable plot of land. It's the

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mark of a true disciple of Christ that they continue

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to follow him into projects and programs that

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they may never see come to fruition. The Bible

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is full of examples of people to whom God makes

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promises, but who never sees them fulfilled in

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their lifetime. People like Abraham, who never

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saw his nation of descendants, or the Apostle

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Paul, who was still planning further missionary

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journeys when he died. Walk Through the Bible

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was started in the UK by my wife and I, and has

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now been passed on to our younger son, who is

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continuing the vision we were given back in 1984.

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It's thrilling. Sometimes you get to see the

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end, often you don't. Our part is to play our

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part and trust God to continue his work through

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other lives. Just play your part. That's all

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you have to do.