Day 10 - 2 Samuel

Day 10 - 2 SAMUEL

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“Then the Lord sent Nathan to David.  Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the Lord God of Israel: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.  I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more!  Why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon.  Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ So David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." And Nathan said to David, "The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.”   (2 Samuel 12:1, 7-10, 13)

Most people think of king David as a righteous man who was much beloved by God and who performed almost superhuman feats like killing a lion and a bear with his own hands; and they are right.  What many do not know is that David was a man just like any other and that he committed murder and adultery as recorded above.  One very valuable lesson we can learn in the life of king David is that no matter what sin we may have committed, God will forgive in Christ if we truly and sincerely repent just as David had done.