14-08-2008, 05:56 PM
Great men and women of God are not great because they escape from problems, they are great because they know to go to God with their problems.
In many ways, the Bible's 66 chapters about David would make for a wild Hollywood soap opera. Everything is there -- murder, adultery, incest.
However, there is a difference between David's true-life drama in the Word of God and a Hollywood soap opera. The Bible reveals to us the wages of sin while Hollywood sanitizes, glamorizes, and sugarcoats the consequences of sin.
When David committed adultery with Bathsheba, he thought that he had gotten away with it. He even arranged for Bathsheba's husband to be killed on the battlefield so he could escape the consequences of God's law.
Months passed and everyone forgot about the sin, except for God. Through the prophet Nathan, God brought David under conviction and David's response was repentance. His response indicated the sorrow and grief he had over his sin.
David's repentance is the only true, and biblical kind of repentance. It was genuine because it was accompanied by a desire to forsake his sin. The consequence of his sin was grave -- the death of his son. Still, God forgave David just as He will forgive us when we come to Him in repentance.
From cover-to-cover, the Bible gives examples of great men and women of God who exercised genuine repentance -- in both word and in deed. Sin is deceptive and its wages are death. God honors true repentance and gives
life to those who are broken before Him. Today you can ask the Lord to "Restore unto me the joy of my salvation" (Psalm 51:12).
~David - Portrait of a Champion
In many ways, the Bible's 66 chapters about David would make for a wild Hollywood soap opera. Everything is there -- murder, adultery, incest.
However, there is a difference between David's true-life drama in the Word of God and a Hollywood soap opera. The Bible reveals to us the wages of sin while Hollywood sanitizes, glamorizes, and sugarcoats the consequences of sin.
When David committed adultery with Bathsheba, he thought that he had gotten away with it. He even arranged for Bathsheba's husband to be killed on the battlefield so he could escape the consequences of God's law.
Months passed and everyone forgot about the sin, except for God. Through the prophet Nathan, God brought David under conviction and David's response was repentance. His response indicated the sorrow and grief he had over his sin.
David's repentance is the only true, and biblical kind of repentance. It was genuine because it was accompanied by a desire to forsake his sin. The consequence of his sin was grave -- the death of his son. Still, God forgave David just as He will forgive us when we come to Him in repentance.
From cover-to-cover, the Bible gives examples of great men and women of God who exercised genuine repentance -- in both word and in deed. Sin is deceptive and its wages are death. God honors true repentance and gives
life to those who are broken before Him. Today you can ask the Lord to "Restore unto me the joy of my salvation" (Psalm 51:12).
~David - Portrait of a Champion
