Week 82, Day 5: Absalom takes over
Today’s Reading: 2 Samuel 15:1-37
Some thoughts from today’s reading…
Absalom has displayed that he is a calculating man. It was two years before he executed his plan to kill Amnon. Now it has been four years since he returned and he has slowly been turning the hearts of the people to him. He stole away the hearts of the people and made his coup strong. In an instance David is forced to flee for his life. It is impressive to think that a son would seek to slay his own father. Perhaps it was David’s lack of guidance and control in his own house. He had not done anything apparently about Amnon’s wicked actions and now he seems to have left Absalom to stew on things for years. How sad that a man so dedicated to God (David) could handle his own house so poorly. Sadly it is something that has been repeated many times over the years.
David’s plight though is a direct result of his sin with Bathsheba. Let us not deceive ourselves into thinking that sin will not cost us anything. No matter how “small” the sin may appear or how enticing the action is (David commited adultery secretly – not many knew about it) we need to remember that our sin is before God and we will have to answer for our actions. Sin will find us out and we can be forgiven by God’s great mercy, but there are often unavoidable consequences that follow sin.
Question: How well did David handle things as he was fleeing? Do you think he could have done anything differently?
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