I had a music section and computer science lecture today. In the evening we had Koinonia bible study, followed by "team building games" with my home group at the Y. The games were different than the ones we played at dana house a little while back, and were focused on making us exercise teamwork.

For the first game we were given a bag of different materials and told to build a device that would fall to the ground slower than all the other teams. We came in second.

For the second game we were given an identical bag of materials and told to build a sculpture. We came up with a decoy sculpture while our real one was a stormtrooper helmet and a masking tape rifle. While I presented the fake sculpture (which was simply our floating device twisted up) as "Birth of a Green River", Dustin walked out of the room behind us wearing the helmet. Some of the other teams' sculptures were pretty creative.

At 12:30, Joseph, Sophie, and I drove back to Davis. We arrived back in Davis at around 1:30.

Devotion time questions:

2 Samuel 7

Reflect on David’s sentiment in v. 2 and what this reveals about David’s heart. What facts has he noticed, and found to be incongruent?

David is embarrassed in seeing how powerful and wealthy he is while God's ark remains in the same tent it was in during David's humble beginnings.

Reflect on God’s answer in reversing David’s proposal by promising that it will be God who will build a house for David. What does this reveal about God’s relationship with man? How does this reflect how God has treated me?

Even though God is the one that deserves to have all the praise and glory, he continually lifts man up by putting himself lower, seen especially through Jesus. Even though we continually dishonor and disobey him, God continues to love and provide for us.

What is the picture of God that emerges in this passage?

Loving to his people and faithful to his promised, but perfect in justice as well.

What feelings are expressed in David’s statements, “Who am I….and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?...What more can David say to you?....And who is like your people Israel…whom you redeemed from Egypt?”

Humility. David is humbled at how insignificant he and his people are before the infinite God. He is speechless and in awe at how God is mindful of him.