God sent the prophet Nathan to David after David had Uriah killed and married Bathsheba. He told him of a man who had one small lamb, and it was his fondest and only possession. A rich man of the city came, and feeding his guest, took his lamb. David said the rich man deserved death. Nathan’s reply must have astonished David. “You are the man! David felt his transgression was not known. But God loved David too much to leave it alone.
In sin the real offense is the despising of God. David realized that God had blessed him and given him all that he had. Every win was due of God. God’s grace was every blessing. He already had at least three wives, but he hated the goodness of God and took what was not his to take. This is the spring of all sin, the contempt of God and his goodness, the claiming of that which we would have, but is not ours to claim. Such is the extent of ingratitude. If God was a man that giving and nice and you abused his trust he would probably end the relationship. Thank God for being more merciful and forgiving than men!
David was sorry. Now he’d have to pay the piper. The cycle of sin would touch the generations to come. That one careless, defiant moment would bring immeasurable sorrow and misery to David’s life and the lives of his descendants. Sin is never a small thing. Trouble is the harvest of one seed sown.
Exhortation: Guard your heart! Despise not the Lord and His goodness.
2 Samuel 12:10 10Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
