Recently, Katie was telling me about a movie she saw where the main actor got away with murder (literally). She watched the entire movie and was so disgusted at how the movie ended. I don't know if she realized it, but her body language, voice tone and facial expressions really told the story of her sense of injustice, wrongness and anger as the audacity of this character "not getting caught." Katie knows this was only a movie. And, she also knows that not one of us really ever get away with sin.
As the story of King David continues, we see the same thing.
I had to go look up what the word was when the translator used "displeased" to describe how the Lord God reacted to what King David did. For me, this description seems just a little too cool and watered down for how I understand God views sin...all sin...obvious ones and "hidden" ones. Other versions say "to be evil in the sight of the Lord." As best I can understand it, the "displeased" is a form of two original words. It seems to be a "breaking up" of a "central object in view." David and God had a special relationship. These sins, broke up that relationship. And, this verse sets the stage for what God does next to show David nothing is hidden from Him.
Do you ever stop to think your sin breaks up your relationship with God? Because you've placed your trust in Christ for salvation, you do not lose your salvation. However, unconfessed sin does affect our relationship with God. I John 1:9 assures us if we confess our sin (agree with God that something is sin, see it the same way He does), He is faithful to forgive us.
I believe many of us pitch our tents in the grace and mercy of God, given through the sacrifice of Jesus in the New Testament and forget about God's absolute holiness. God's just wrath on sin is displayed over and over again in the Old Testament. God's grace and mercy torward you and me IS amazing. But, it is not a reason to be flippant nor ambivilant about the sin we still commit. Would that we all were as serious about hating our own sin as we are deeply thankful for God's grace and mercy towards us, bought at the cost of Jesus on the cross.
How seriously do you take your sin?
Read on.
| What David Did: Getting Away with Murder Posted: 29 Jan 2011 12:00 AM PST "When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the LORD." (2 Samuel 11:26-27) We skipped over a few things between the start of 2 Samuel 11 and the end of it. Using his power as the king, David sends someone to get Bathsheba. Some scholars suggest that he raped her. Either way, he got her pregnant.
To cover up that crime, he brought her husband Uriah home from the war so he'd sleep with her and think the baby was his. When that failed, David had his own soldier killed and took the dead man's wife for his own. And he got away with all of it because he was the king.
At least he thought he did. The last sentence echoes with deep foreboding. God had seen it all, and He didn't like it. David was in trouble.
Think: Have you ever done something you thought was seriously wrong and seemed to get away with it? Do you think anyone ever "gets away" with sin?
Pray: Ask God to remind you that no sins are secret from Him. Ask Him to help you to rely on Him both to avoid sin and — when you fail — to confess it and receive His forgiveness.
Do: In a sentence or two, describe the punishment you think David's sin deserved.   |
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Mary E.Hickcox
www.CalvaryBaptistSM.orghttp://mary-neotes.blogspot.com/
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