2 Samuel 7:18-24, "Who Am I, O Lord GOD?" - a podcast by Benjamin Glaser

We continued this week with thinking about our baptism and how it informs our response to God's grace with a look at David's prayer to the LORD in 2 Samuel 7:18-24. The Prophet Nathan had come to David and told him about the covenantal promise that God was making with him, ensuring that the throne would never cease and that God would redeem Israel as a people for Himself.

This assurance of David's place in the eternal kingdom was far more important to him than the physical kingship which he had in Israel. We are shown this by the way he responds to Nathan's words. He immediately goes before the Lord God in prayer and seeks to give thanks to Him for being a God who has not chosen him for this blessing because of who he was, but because of who God is. In other words what we are to learn from this passage about our own growth in the Christian life in regards to this is the power of our own baptism to remind us of how the grace of Christ is the source of all our strength and comfort. Through looking back at the redeeming work of Jehovah in Egypt and the implied future work of the true King and Redeemer David shows us not only how we are to pray, but the attitude through which we come before God. This humble presence is a key part of seeing ourselves without the natural vanity of our minds, but always seeing ourselves as redeemed sinners in Christ.

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