“The LORD
Has Put Away Your Sin”
But
the thing that David had done displeased the LORD, and the LORD sent Nathan to
David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city,
the one rich and the other poor. The rich man had very many flocks and herds;
but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. He
brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children; it used to eat of
his meager fare, and drink from his cup, and lie in his bosom, and it was like a
daughter to him. Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was loath to
take one of his own flock or here to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to
him, but he took the poor man’s lamb, and prepared that for the guest who had
come to him.” Then David’s anger was
greatly kindled against the man. He said to Nathan, “As the LORD lives, the man
who has done this deserves to die; he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because
he did this thing, and because he had no pity.”
Nathan
said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I
anointed you king over Israel, and I rescued you from the hand of Saul; I gave
you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you
the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have
added as much more. Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is
evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the
Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have
killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now therefore the sword shall never
depart from your house, for you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. Thus says the LORD: I
will raise up trouble against you from within 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 very sun. For
you did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all
2 Samuel 12:1-13
Sinful
choices create their own set of problems. Sin’s consequences have a way of
accumulating.
When
we confess our sins to God, He promises to forgive and cleanse us. For those we
have hurt, we can seek ways of righting wrongs through restitution. The God of
grace will give us wisdom in dealing with bad decisions from our past and help
us to make good ones in the future.
The law of sowing and reaping has never been repealed.
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