3.171 Anointed

In Matthew 5, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth and the light of the world, reminding us that our lives are meant to preserve, illuminate, and point others to Him. This season on Savory Salt, we'll walk through the Old Testament, one verse and one thought each day. Perhaps these moments will add greater savor and brighter light to our lives as we seek to truly live as Savory Salt.

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I never envisioned this as I started off Savory Salt three seasons ago. Thank you for joining me wherever it is you tune in from. And so it seems like we just kind of bouncing around and skipping across a few things, and we are because of the pacing.

Hopefully, you're finding great nuggets inside of your studies as well. Today, I wanted to dive into the section. I wanted to kind of fast forward through the separation of Saul and David.

That's a big part of our reading this week. Hopefully, you can find some nuggets inside of there. And I wanted to get to 2 Samuel chapter 5 here.

The front end of the chapter is pretty interesting to me. As we see kind of a catch-up from a previous chapter we're going to reference, let's do our verse first, and then we'll see what this connection is here. 2 Samuel 5, verse 3, is our verse for today. So all the elders of Israel came to the king, to Hebron, and King David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel.

Now we get this anointing here by the elders of Israel, but don't forget that in 1 Samuel 16, David has already been anointed king by the prophet. So this is a kind of a secular anointing that's happening in verse 3 here, as the Israelites—the elders, I should say, of Israel—accept and anoint David as their king to fulfill that which the Lord had done in 1 Samuel chapter 16. Anointing is a fascinating thing for me, especially as you consider kind of the flow of how anointings work, especially on the European side of things, as they follow things very biblically with, you know, oil and anointing and anointing their head and their heart, right, so to speak.

That type of idea—kind of an interesting process to see a coronation of a king or queen still in many of the European countries. And yet, this anointing as a king or queen is what had me reflect upon our own experiences. The Holy Temple is a place for us to go to experience our own endowment process with the Lord, to be able to receive those endowments and make covenants with Him, and to be anointed to become those kings and queens in the Lord's kingdom.

I think it's fascinating that we get to see this process play out here through the story of David and remember, in our own lives, the process that we're being prepared for as well. My friends, does your anointing, does the process you've gone through, if you have gone through the Holy Temple, change the way you look at your perspective of life? Do you act as a monarch would act?

I hope you can feel the Lord, and I hope that that anointing process can keep you in the lens of the kings and queens the Lord is hoping that we can become as we follow our Savior Jesus Christ. That is all for today, my friends. You and I have come here for such a time as this.

Step forward in faith, and let's be Savory Salt. We will be here tomorrow, and we hope you are too.