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It's been almost a year since I posted last. My excuse is pretty pathetic...we moved, I lost track of my old notebook, and really wanted to list my posts in chronological order! So, now that we've moved again & the notebook is relocated, I'll continue where I left off.
II Sam. 12
David's child died because of his sin. David wept, fasted and prayed while it was still alive, but ceased after he died, going into the tabernacle to worship. He "quieted himself as a weaned child." He accepted God's will and did not question it.
God's punishment of David hit on his vulnerable spot...his children, whom he loved very much. God said because of his sin with Bathsheba, his child would die and there would be no peace in his household. We later see the heartache his children caused him, from Amnon's rape of Tamar to Absalom's betrayal and death. The consequences continued for David's own good...to keep him dependent on God and to rein in his wandering heart.
But yet God showed he had forgiven David and Bathsheba by giving them a son--Solomon, whom "the Lord loved." If I were God, I would probably make the couple barren for the rest of their lives, just out of decency if nothing else! But God, being Who He is, delights in bringing good out of evil. Solomon's reign would become a glorious picture of Christ's wise and righteous reign on earth. And through the "unholy union" of David and Bathsheba, would come, in the fullness of time, the Messiah.*
How different God's ways are from mine! He used a union that never should have been, a broken man and woman, as a key element in his plan to save all mankind.
David & Bathsheba's sin reminds me of Adam and Eve's. The same hiding from God. The same guilt, the same brokenness. And yet there is the same fact that God turns their failure into something epic, something good, a tool for redemption.
* Joseph, the assumed father of Jesus, came from Solomon. Mary's genealogy springs from Nathan, a younger, barely-mentioned son of Bathsheba and David. Any real son of Joseph would be prohibited from being a king because of the curse pronounced on one of the last Hebrew kings, Jeconiah. So the "root of David" was necessary, since the main line of kings had been cut off. Yet the Messiah still came from David and Bathsheba's union.
II Sam. 12
David's child died because of his sin. David wept, fasted and prayed while it was still alive, but ceased after he died, going into the tabernacle to worship. He "quieted himself as a weaned child." He accepted God's will and did not question it.
God's punishment of David hit on his vulnerable spot...his children, whom he loved very much. God said because of his sin with Bathsheba, his child would die and there would be no peace in his household. We later see the heartache his children caused him, from Amnon's rape of Tamar to Absalom's betrayal and death. The consequences continued for David's own good...to keep him dependent on God and to rein in his wandering heart.
But yet God showed he had forgiven David and Bathsheba by giving them a son--Solomon, whom "the Lord loved." If I were God, I would probably make the couple barren for the rest of their lives, just out of decency if nothing else! But God, being Who He is, delights in bringing good out of evil. Solomon's reign would become a glorious picture of Christ's wise and righteous reign on earth. And through the "unholy union" of David and Bathsheba, would come, in the fullness of time, the Messiah.*
How different God's ways are from mine! He used a union that never should have been, a broken man and woman, as a key element in his plan to save all mankind.
David & Bathsheba's sin reminds me of Adam and Eve's. The same hiding from God. The same guilt, the same brokenness. And yet there is the same fact that God turns their failure into something epic, something good, a tool for redemption.
* Joseph, the assumed father of Jesus, came from Solomon. Mary's genealogy springs from Nathan, a younger, barely-mentioned son of Bathsheba and David. Any real son of Joseph would be prohibited from being a king because of the curse pronounced on one of the last Hebrew kings, Jeconiah. So the "root of David" was necessary, since the main line of kings had been cut off. Yet the Messiah still came from David and Bathsheba's union.
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