Reading
SAA Notes
These chapters record the terrible turning point in David’s history. David begins not to accompany the army on the missions he sends it. Jesus leads always from the front. He came to us, and in Revelation 19, He rides in front on the white horse. The differences between the two are telling.
SJA Notes
* Mighty God, we will sing aloud to You, our strength, and shout for joy to You, the God of Jacob!
“But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.”
This is why Jesus needed to come to earth. God the Son incarnate, become man.
Because even a man after God’s own heart is a sinner that does terrible things.
Look at David’s actions.
The king stops going out to war.
David rests through the day on his couch.
He looks on a naked woman and doesn’t look away.
In this, David is faith-LESS.
Uriah is contrasted here and being faith-FULL. He would not even entertain going home while the army was int he field. Even when David got him drunk, Uriah refused to go off course.
We know that Uriah was one of the Thirty (a band of fearsome warriors).
This was not a weak man in terms of martial strength, but also we see here in terms of personal fortitude and devotion.
Uriah is an example of faithfulness.
David in this passage is an example of faithlessness.
Both point us to Jesus. Our need for a righteous Saviour, one who will _always_ do what is right and true.
That is what we have in our Lord and King, God in the Person of the Son, the Lamb of God slain from before the foundation of the world – Jesus!
* God Above,
Please help us to be faithful as You are faithful.
Thank You for Jesus!
Amen.