Make Known His Deeds Among The Nations

1 Chronicles 16:8 – Oh, give thanks to the LORD! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples. (NKJV)

Ezra writes how David gave praise to Jehovah after placing the Ark of the Covenant in the Tabernacle. The Book of Chronicles is an inspirational account of the history of Jerusalem, with the focus on David and an accumulative process. The books of Samuel and Kings are used for half the writing of the book and the genealogies in the beginning come from the Pentateuch. The audience for this writing is post exile and captive Israel with the writer’s desire being to emphasize the continuance of an alignment with the their past.

Giving thanks to God for all he’s done, His good and righteous acts and judgements, we are to make known God’s gracious tendencies towards His chosen people, in a physical and spiritual sense. Call upon Him and He will answer. The acts of God are worth telling to the whole world.

1 Chronicles 16: 1-7, the Ark of the Covenant is put into the Tabernacle with David offering burnt sacrifices and offerings of praise. 1 Chronicles 17: 19, 20 shows how loving God is towards His people, expressing many things and proves He’s the only God that is worthy to be known as the one and true God. Psalms 105: 1-15 show God’s faithfulness towards His physical people and spiritual children, giving many marvelous works done for them, judgements made in their favor and for their growth. This was done to help them keep in mind the covenant that He made with Abraham so that His people may be faithful to Him.

Apart from our main example Jesus Christ, David was in the line of spiritual greats, setting the example for giving thanks and praises to God, making known His deeds. With this in mind, lets hope to do the same, following the examples set before us.