The Heart's Cry: Psalm 89

Psalm 89

You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
    I have sworn to my servant David:
‘I will establish your descendants forever,
    and build your throne for all generations.

Who are your ancestors? Who are you descended from? While these may seem like simple questions in reality they are a bit more complicated. We are flesh and blood and so we obviously have biological ancestors, those who we are connected with through our DNA. We are also something more, call it spirit or soul or whatever other word you prefer, and so we have spiritual ancestors and descendants as well. These ancestors and descendants can be good or bad, we may have alcoholism or an aversion to alcohol in our DNA and we may pass on persistence or stubbornness to the generations to come, in the same way we can have, and be, both positive and negative spiritual ancestors and descendants. Only some people are biological descendants of David, but everyone who counts themselves a Jew or a Christian, for better or worse, are spiritual descendants of David.

Through time David had children and grandchildren and great...and along that line, check Matthew and Luke for Mary and Joseph's line to David, came Jesus the biological and spiritual descendant of David. Now, of course, Jesus took the spiritual to a whole other level, but in theory so can you and I. Jesus said [in John 14] that his followers would do even greater things than he did, so we have it in our spiritual DNA to do things we cannot yet imagine. Doing great things requires that we remember that while we have been limited by our physical DNA that we have been given a way to overcome that through our spiritual DNA. This is not an easy task, I struggle to believe it as much or moreso than anyone else, but it is a worthy task.

+ When you think of physical ancestors who are the ones you want to be like and who are the ones you don't want to be like? How about your spiritual ancestors?

+ What attributes do you have that you hope to pass down to your descendants? Which ones would you rather not?