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Today’s Bible Reading: 2 Samuel 12-13

Today’s Devotional: 2 Samuel 12:1-14

The Lord uncovers sin so that He can cover a multitude of sin

David’s stumbling in taking Uria’s wife for himself, David seeks to cover the matter and sweep it under the rug… But God… sent Nathan the Prophet to David with a parable and message, of the Lord knows what David has done, his desire to act deceitfully and to have a man killed for coveting and stealing that man’s wife. David’s response to the parable from Nathan was to deal harshly with the circumstances brought to him.

The Lord said that David was the guilty party in the parable because David despised the commands of the Lord and did evil in the Lord’s sight, David did what was right in his own eyes at every turn with the incident with Bathsheba and Uriah.

Though David sought to and possibly thought he had concealed his actions, they can never be concealed from the Lord. David’s action placed himself in opposition to the Lord.

• David murdered
• David lied
• David coveted
• David stole
• And a specific command for kings, he multiplied wives to himself, Deu 17:17

In all that David did and had weighed on his conscience David spoke right in 2 Samuel 12:5, that the man who does this must die.

And this is what sin does to us, it places a barrier between us and God that makes it impossible to pass on our own and our only outcome is death and eternal separation from God… But God… 2 Samuel 12:13 is the central theme to 2 Samuel 12, as well as to all of our sin. The key to our position and who we are.

• 1st David confessed he had sinned and so was unable to do anything to correct the evil he had done.
• 2nd It’s the Lord who is able and puts away our sin so that we may walk before Him and not continue in our sin.
• 3rd is any one looking on and having seen someone going through the choices that David or anyone makes, as Paul writes to the Galatians not to think our selves better than someone else and incapable of falling or being overcome by the same scenarios and choices in our own life.

Our response should be of humility before the Lord in not able to overcome any situation and sin on our own merit or action and also that we are not important enough not to fall into the same sin and get overtaken. Not being the individual who looks at their sin and differences with the Lord and saying we can straighten things out on our own and we can make a way to God through our strength and our knowledge, and also looking on at others who are stumbling and saying how we are better than them for not stumbling in the areas they have. Jesus in Luke 18:9-14 tells us who is the righteous and correct of the two.