- 2 Samuel 13 Daily DEVO And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her. 2 Samuel 13:2 – When sin is given freedom in your life to influence and direct, you will find yourself tormented by it. See how much pain came about in this story. Everyone involved was effected by this allowance of sin to be present in Amnon’s life. Relationships were torn, futures were crushed, and life was even ended all because of sin. This is the real ending to all sin. Our common enemy will play it off that there will only be pleasure attached to sin. What we see is whatever pleasure Amnon found in what he did was overshadowed with all this torment and pain. Amnon needed to see the bigger picture of sin and so do we. Allow yourself to see the all the things that sinfulness is going to bring into your story. Is that pleasure worth all the pain that will come as well? Never let sin direct you or influence you. Lean on Jesus to give you the strength you need to say no. For you, for others, for your future, for God…say no. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 444
- So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house, where he was lying down. And she took dough and kneaded it and made cakes in his sight and baked the cakes. 2 Samuel 13:8 – Our faithfulness to what we’ve been called to do doesn’t equal safety from all evil. Here Tamar is directed to go take care of her “sick” brother and she does exactly as told. What she did not know what she was walking into the room and pain that would change her life forever. We too can be faithful to all we are directed by God to do yet still walk straight into to worst hardships we’ll ever experience. Why is this so? Because we weren’t rescued from our sin to be settled in a place of serenity, we have been saved so we can lean into the fight for the hearts of those we love to be turned to Jesus. In that fight, things will get messy, hard, and painful. Understand then saying yes to Jesus most likely will be a path to the hardest, most exhausting seasons of life one can experience, but you will have a loving Father with you every step offering you what you need to keep fighting. Yet why would we then purposely choose a path like that knowing what lies ahead of us if we do? Because we love the people in our story and we can’t imagine allowing them to enter eternity away from Jesus without us at least doing all we can to change that. So as sad as this story is from our passage allow it remind you that being faithful doesn’t equal an absence of evil in your story. You though have a good Father who can heal you, bring purpose to your pain, and even use your story to save others. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1872
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