2 Samuel 23:3-4 affirms the principle of Kingship:
“The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me: ‘He who rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be like the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, like the tender grass springing out of the earth, by clear shining after rain.’”
The king who rules righteously and in the fear of God is a benediction to his people: The benediction of the rising sun in the morning, when there are no clouds.
The king who rules his people righteously is like sunlight after rain: Glimmering with a beautiful shine across the grass of the field.
When God prepared David for the exercise of kingship, He did so by giving David such imagery of the perpetual, radiant sun.
Such is God’s radiating Kingship over us, through the “thick and thin”, through the victories and travails of our lives.
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