Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair.

I took my son trick-or-treating this past year for the first time and while my son gets plenty of chocolate in our house it's

mostly just dark chocolate chips or m&M's, which means that he knows basically nothing about the world of candy.

Which is why, when he walked up to the first bowl of candy he was offered, a bowl that was brimming with full-sized Reese's peanut butter

cups. My son looked in and he grabbed a singular mini tutsi roll.

He must have really liked the way the tutsi roll looked, because without fail, every chance

he got, he came back with a tutsi roll. I mean no hate to the to-se-rule people out there, but a

to-se-y-roll stands no chance against the apex of Halloween candy, the full-sized

Reese's peanut butter cup. Now my son had no idea what kind of

riches he was being offered. He was just focused on the one thing he wanted.

He's a toddler with a one-track mind unable to grasp that he was being offered so much more than a totsy rule.

Now in First Chronicle 17, David, he wants a tosy roll. It's not a bad thing that he wants.

He wants to build God a temple, so that his arc has a home.

In fact, it's actually a good desire that David has, and when he runs

it by the Prophet Nathan, Nathan immediately affirms David saying, if he has the desire to do so, he

should.

Nathan's like me with Jude.

If David wants the totsy roll, he should take it.

Tutsi rolls are good.

But, God, in his infinite wisdom and goodness and generosity doesn't let David settle for the Tutsi role.

See God has another plan. Instead of allowing David to have the honor of building him a house for the

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