May 26, 2016
Chapter 12 is full of spiritual lessons. Today we are going to concentrate on two of them. The first is that even when we sin God loves us and will make a way for us to come back to him ! That is not to say that there are no consequences. David had committed murder and adultery and yet God made a way back for David through the prophet Nathan. Now the consequences that David would pay would last his whole life and cost him his son !!! Which leads us to the second spiritual truth in this chapter. The whole time David's son was alive , David fasted and wept and prayed. Then when the baby died he got up and ate and cleaned up. This is exactly the opposite that we would expect from a father. When David was asked about his behavior his reply was that as long as the child was alive, maybe God would save his life. After he died there was nothing he could do and besides he would be with him again !!What did David mean ? He meant that his child was in heaven and David would be with him again when he died and went to heaven. This is the spiritual truth ... You do not have to be baptized to go to heaven !!!
This chapter is a very sorted story of incest and murder in the King's family. David's son Amnon lures his half sister to his bed and rapes her. When his brother Absalom hears of this he sets a trap and murders Amnom. When I read this story it makes me wonder what kind of father David was ! He has raised a rapist and a murderer and the scripture says that David was very mad... but had no consequences for the murderer !! Now Absalom runs away and hides but David ends up accepting him back later on... again with no consequences !! It also makes me wonder about David being called a man after God's own heart when he was such a bad father. I know that the reason is the heart and I know that David was passionate for God, but what about the people David touched and his behavior towards them.?
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