1 Chronicles 29:15 Meaning and Explanation
“For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →David confesses that he and his people are strangers and pilgrims before God, their days on earth fleeting as a shadow, with nothing lasting.
What Does 1 Chronicles 29:15 Mean?
David sets human frailty beside God's eternity. Like the fathers before them, the people are sojourners passing through, their lives brief as a shadow on the ground. None remains.
To know that our days are short is not despair but wisdom; it loosens our grip on what we cannot keep and turns our hearts toward the One who abides. Pilgrims travel light. The believer who feels the brevity of life learns to invest in what endures beyond it -- and to give freely now, since nothing here is held forever.
1 Chronicles 29:15 in the Original Language
ger (גֵּר), 'stranger' -- a resident alien who dwells in a land not his own, a pilgrim without permanent claim.
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What does 1 Chronicles 29:15 mean?
David confesses that he and his people are strangers and pilgrims before God, their days on earth fleeting as a shadow, with nothing lasting.