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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
2 Samuel 12:13-25
David’s conscience, so long asleep, is now seized by a profound conviction of sin. He realises that his crime does not only involve Uriah and his wife; it is, in the first place, against the LORD.
The faults we commit against our brothers and sisters, our relatives or anyone else are first of all, we must understand, each one a sin against God. It is, therefore, not sufficient to put the matter right with the one to whom we have done wrong — when that is possible (David could not); we must also confess it to God.
This is what David does in Psalms 51, written in the moment of bitter distress (see also Psalms 32:5; Psalms 32:1-2). Truly God does not despise "a broken and a contrite heart" (Psalms 51:17). He pardons his poor servant; He pardons him completely. David is "whiter than snow" for he is in anticipation washed by the same precious blood of Jesus, shed for him, for you and for me. But what cannot be taken away are the consequences of the evil committed. These are very grievous. In the first place his little child must die. By this all will know that, whilst pardoning the sinner, God condemns the sin absolutely, even and especially when it is committed by one of His servants.
