The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in 2 Samuel 12:10,
"Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me [the Lord] and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own."
When Nathan approached David to level the Lord's indictment of him for his murder of Uriah and his adultery with Uriah's wife, this statement from the Lord was included in the indictment. When David took Uriah's wife and killed him the Lord told David that his actions expressed a despising by David of the Lord himself.
After Nathan delivered the indictment, David confessed that he had "sinned against the Lord." Verse 13. In Psalm 51, a psalm David wrote of the incident, David said, "For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you [God], you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge."
"Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me [the Lord] and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own."
When Nathan approached David to level the Lord's indictment of him for his murder of Uriah and his adultery with Uriah's wife, this statement from the Lord was included in the indictment. When David took Uriah's wife and killed him the Lord told David that his actions expressed a despising by David of the Lord himself.
After Nathan delivered the indictment, David confessed that he had "sinned against the Lord." Verse 13. In Psalm 51, a psalm David wrote of the incident, David said, "For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you [God], you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge."
The victim of David's sin was Uriah (and Bathsheba!), but his execution of that sin was against the Lord. Why is that? David knew the Lord, David was a man of faith and loved the Lord. David also knew God's righteous decree, his laws against murder and adultery. As such, the committing of those sins was the commission of an act against what God had decreed, and against God himself. In the very act of sinning, David subordinated God's desires to the gratification of his own sinful nature.
In what terms do we recognize our sins to be? Do we stop to consider, as we may contemplate some sin, that it is an expression of a believer to despise his God when he commits that sin? Something to consider here...
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just respond and let me know.
Trevor Fisk
trevor.fisk@gmail.com
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