2 Samuel 11:1-12:25
I ask myself why did King David remain at home when the verses say that in the Spring of the year-kings go out to war? I wonder why there is a season for this? But I also wonder why up until this time we had read that David went out before the people and came back before the people so that the Lord was with them, and yet now he stayed at home to let others fight for him and his people? How did this come about?
When David should have been elsewhere doing what the Lord directed-this time he was idle. What has happened between yesterday's reading and today's that David isn't asking before he does anything whether the Lord wills it?
We see that good does not come of it-but rather death. When we seek to do our own will over the Lord's in comes death. Uriah the Hittite, though he was a righteous man, was killed; the child that was born, died. All of this from willful disobedience.
David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." And Nathan said to David, "The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
David recognizes his sin and the Lord "put away his sin." What is this, and what does it mean that the Lord puts away his sin, and he shall not die? David spoke truly when he said he deserved to die-when he didn't know he was speaking of himself, and yet it is still true, his actions were deserving of death: he sent a man to his death. And yet, the Lord does not kill him as he deserves. What shall be David's life in this new gift?
I wonder.
See you tomorrow.
-maggie
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