Today's treasure: 2 Samuel 11:11
Read 2 Samuel 11:1-27
Why did David bring Uriah home?
In 2 Samuel 11:1-17 a stark contrast becomes evident in the character of Uriah and David..what evidences do you find?
Uriah: evidences of strong character
David: evidences of flawed character
consider the words of verse 25 and describe David's heart at this point.
Imagine how the Father's heart is wounded when we behave so unlike one of His children. Considering the
events, David's heart was further away from God than we imagined.
David's faraway heart:
1. David resisted many opportunities to repent of his sin and lessen the charges against himself. Most of us have been carried away by an overwhelming and sudden craving of the flesh, but we've often cried out for help before sin was heaped on sin. Other times people can get themselves in the revolving door of sin and continue in a destructive cycle.
After he committed the act adultery, even though the consequences of pregnancy were already at work, David could have fallen on his face before God, repented, asked for mercy and begged God to help clean up the mess.
David had God's Spirit in him. David had quenched the Spirit to such a degree that he was able to resist repeated conviction.
2. David was unmoved by Uriah's integrity. His faraway heart was unaffected by an encounter with authentic integrity.
How had David once shepherded his people (Ps. 78:72)
Uriah's integrity should have spurred such a sense of loss in David that he could not bear to remain so far from the Father. David surely recognized integrity.
If Uriah were on trial for integrity, there would be ample evidence to convict him.
3. David tried to cover his own sins.
Who is blessed according to Psalm 32:1 ?
Whom did God inspire to write that Psalm?
The word covered in original Hebrew is kasah: to cover, conceal, hide, to keep secret, wrap oneself up..
When we try to cover up our sinful ways, we are bound for disaster as sin perpetuates. Only through repentance will God cover and clothe us with His loving forgiveness.
4. He involved many others in his sin. David never stopped to consider the position in which he was placing others. We can be too self absorbed that we do not care what we are asking from others. Intense selfishness accompanies a faraway heart. We can measure intimacy with God as a heart near God is characterized by the marked selflessness of Christ .
David navigated his way to the negative extreme of this spectrum. In David's selfishness, he involved a servant in his plans,; he invited Bathsheba to a season of guilt and grief; he attempted to entice Uriah to compromise his values; he involved Joab in his sin, and had Uriah killed, and most importantly displeased God.
1 Corinthians 10:11-12 gives us several reasons why God has given us accounts like David's.
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