- 2 Samuel 12 Daily DEVO And the Lord sent Nathan to David. 2 Samuel 12:1a – God isn’t about us staying blind to how sin is hurting us and hurting our walk with Him. David, after his mistake with Bathsheba, seems to be trying to live as if everything he did was alright, or at least covered under the rug. Yet God isn’t about to let David continue down this path with this unresolved sin hanging inside David’s life so God brings Nathan in to open David’s eyes to the damage he had caused. God brought someone into David’s life to help David see what sin had blinded him too. So will God do in your story. Sin has such a way of blinding us to the real damage it’s causing in our lives. We overlook the infection that’s growing in our lives due to sin because we’re blinded by the pleasures of it. So God, in His love for us, will use the people in our lives to open our eyes to the infection we aren’t seeing. So when someone approaches you like Nathan did for David in our story and opens your eyes to a problem in your life you didn’t see, don’t shut them down, be willing to check yourself first. See if anything they say is true. God very well might be using them to help you overcome an infection of sin that you didn’t know was there. Just know when God calls out your sin, it’s not to guilt trip you with shame, it’s to call you to repentance and back into His loving arms. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 443
- Then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. And he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. He then went to his own house. And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate. 2 Samuel 12:20 – Apart from the rest of the passage this verse could be taken as simply as maybe David tripped or was just sitting on the ground for a bit then got up and washed. But it wasn’t that simple. David’s baby was dying and for days he laid face down on the ground praying and fasting, asking God to bring healing. Yet, when word came to David the baby died, David arose, cleaned up, and went to worship the Lord. There is so much here, but today let’s just focus on one thing. We can still worship God even when the moves God makes don’t align with our prayers. Why allowing this baby to die as the consequences of David’s sin was God’s choice I don’t fully understand, but we do see this changed David’s heart for the remainder of his life. As difficult as is it can be to do, seek to trust God’s decisions as holy. Choose to worship Him when those decisions align with our prayers, and especially when they don’t. Nothing God does is absent of love, wisdom, patience, or purpose. We might not fully understand, but we can still choose to worship the God who has demonstrated great love towards us when we were far from Him. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1871
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