Infusion Bible eStudies are downloadable small group studies that can be read online, printed, or emailed. Each study includes a leader guide and a study guide and is suitable for a one-hour group Bible study.
Listen...to the words of the Scripture, and in them discover God's message for you today.
Look...at a brief verbal snapshot from the scrapbook of contemporary life and discover its connection both to you and to the Scripture passage.
Live...inside the Scripture to discover its context and message; then allow the Scripture to come alive in you and cause you to live out your faith in new and more-effective ways.
Read an excerpt from this study below.
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An old saying by Ludovico Ariosto is, “Man proposes, but God disposes.”1 Human beings are full of great ideas, even ideas about how we might do great things for God. Not every “great idea” we think is what God has in mind, however. Simply put, our plans may not fit into God’s larger perspective. More than that, many of our human aspirations are little more than thinly veiled means of accumulating glory for ourselves. Even our struggles for right against wrong sometimes arise out of a self-centered desire to be the hero who mans the bulwarks against the forces of godlessness. Thankfully, we do not fool God, who can see right through our self-serving vainglory.
King David in our Bible Lesson is now firmly established on his throne. He has moved into a new, luxurious mansion and is looking about for more great things to accomplish. One day it occurs to him to build the Lord a house, a temple in which the ark of God could repose. God, however, had other ideas. Instead of David making him a house, he proposed to make David into one. God proposed to do far more for David than David would ever have dared to imagine.
