Succession

After 2 Samuel 2:1-5:25 

A succession marked 

by turmoil, rivalries,

murder, deceit, betrayal.

The one anointed

to be king prevails,

first for Judah, then

for Israel. God’s choice

was clearly made, man’s 

choice was made with

deception, to the point

of death. The blessing

remained with the one

chosen, as it has since

he prophet’s anointing

all those years before.

The chosen one becomes

king, as provided before

the beginning of time.

 

Painting: Bringing Up the Guns, oil on canvas by Sir. John Gilbert (1817 -1897); Birmingham Museums Trust.

Some Sunday Readings

 

Moses on Mount Pisgah – poem by Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

 

‘Peanuts’: Suffering, Baseball, and Religion – SDG’s Dailies & Sundays. 

 

Newly Grown Grass with Last Year’s Seed – Jacob Crouch.

 

Advent Sunday – poem by John Keble at The Imaginative Conservative.