Tuesday, August 18, 2009

2 Samuel 13

3 comments:

Unknown said...

sin+sin=a whole lot of misery. The wages of sin of death. But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. A God who loves us despite our failure, a God who rises above the basest of our realities, a God who desires and seeks to redeem the guiltiest of guiltiest and wash them as white as snow and lift their heads.

Keystone said...

" Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.'

"This is what the LORD says: 'Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity upon you."
~~~2 Samuel 12: 10-11

By Chapter 13, we are well into public display, of one of the most dysfunctional families ever created.
Three of David's sons came to violent deaths: Amnon (13: 28-29); Absalom (18:14), and Adonijah (1 Kings 2:25).

Rape, secrets, poor choices of friends, incest, multiple wives, lack of spiritual leadership by David (of all people).

This is all a spiritual grammar lesson from God. David, Bathsheba, and Uriah pretty much spelled "the end" for David.
But it was curious to watch him cry for the loss of Bathsheba's child unabashedly; then suddenly stop, brush his clothes off, and go on with life.

David had done all he could to repent, change, and turn from his debasement of God, after all God had done for HIM. (Goliath, becoming Ling, etc).

Psalm 51 (coming up this week) is a direct repentance by David, over the Bathsheba mess. Bathsheba is NOT the story; David's relationship with GOD is the story.

We need today to understand spiritual grammar.
When God puts a comma in your life, there is a pause and continuation. If you have done your best, and it is over, get up and get on with it!

When God puts a period, He is getting ready to write another chapter...an eternal chapter.... a new, and powerful chapter.

God does not run out of options.
He can still write another chapter in YOUR life.

We can not just view this section of 2 Samuel, as the children paying the price of the sins of the father.

Was your dad/mom an alcoholic?
Did your home have incest?
Divorce?
Mental illness?
Murder?
Secrets?
Horrible choices in friends?
Loose morals?
Adultery?


ALL families have their sins.
Do not get caught up, in the ditch of this sin telling, in these chapters. They tell the story of God keeping his word to David, for David VOWED to Nathan, how a man who stole a stole sheep (Bathsheba) should be treated....and God honored that vow.

This is not all in the Bible to give us a modern day TV drama plot.

The spiritual grammar lessons of God,.... what he does with a comma, a period, an exclamation or question (Nathan's) are grammar lessons for our own spiritual growth.

WE are to do more after a comma.

God creates more after a period.

If you have met a period from God, look for his new chapter with your life. The pen is in the hand of the author.

It ain't over until you are dead.
Prepare for the next chapter of your life, by learning from the story so far in your life.

Beware the semicolon. You experience patience then.

Ask God to reveal His spiritual grammar lessons to you, as you read 2 Samuel (and Psalm 51, the Psalm of repentence....often used by pastor's in counseling families in a mess today due to sexual sin).

And the sex is sex.
God is disturbed at the breaking of the OATH, the VOW, not the sex part.

Words were used to make all of creation, "Let there be light".

You will find that YOUR words "create" your life just the same.

Keep a vow, or don't make one.
And, learn the spiritual grammar all over this section of the OT.

Unknown said...

oh....... LOVE this concept of spiritual grammar. Just wonderful!