2 Samuel 12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’
2 Samuel 12:11 Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
2 Samuel 12:12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’”
2 Samuel 12:13 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.
2 Samuel 12:14 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the LORD, the child who is born to you shall die.”
David fell hard.
He was at the pinnacle of success, and the chosen king of Israel. God had given him direction, protection, wisdom and victories over his enemies. He had attained to the throne and united the kingdom!
Over and over again, his life provided to all watching him the sun the witness of a man after God’s own heart. If any man in Israel was a walking talking believer in the God of Israel, David was the man!
Deception, lust, adultery and murder came fast for this king. It was no accidental occurrence of sin. He was the man who gave the orders to bring that woman to him, to send that husband into the battle, to ignore the Lord.
I suppose it is the way of sin isn’t it? To fall into sin, to chase after sin is to ignore the Lord in the daily battles and temptations we face. Some may say David should have been in the battle instead of at the palace, but he has fallen, and by the law, is to be condemned to death!
As we read passages that describe his time from his sin to his restoration, we see a man who had died inside, who was dried up, torn down and without comfort. Even as Nathan came to David in our passage this morning, he came to David with the message of death. Only upon David’s confession of sin was the sentence of death lifted, and that not by legal determination, but by grace, and mercy from the hand of the Lord.
David confessed. He received pardon, for the Lord put away his sin. Yet for the remaining days of David’s life, all under the sun would witness David’s sufferings under the temporal judgement of shaming the Lord in private.
So may I ask my reader – What condition before the Lord was David in prior to his confession? He was surely a man after the heart of God prior to the fall. He was surely a man after the heart of God after this period of rebellion.
But what condition was he in between the sin and the confession?
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