9/25/2010 8:38:09 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My
Worship Time Focus: The comforting
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2Sam. 12:24-25
Message of the verses: “24
Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with
her; and she gave birth to a son, and he named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved
him 25 and sent word through Nathan the
prophet, and he named him Jedidiah for the LORD’S sake.”
God
gave forgiveness to David and Bathsheba in giving them a son whom the Lord
loved in a special way and he would be the one who will be the next king of
Israel. In verse twenty-four Bathsheba
is called the wife of David and not Uriah’s wife as seen in other places.
There
is one thing that I do not truly understand and that is what is recorded in
1Chronicles 3:5 “These were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan
and Solomon, four, by Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel.” Here and in other places it is mentioned that
Solomon is born number four in line of children of Bathsheba and David and yet
it seems like after reading the verses for today’s SD that he is the very next
child to be born to David and Bathsheba.
Dr. Wiersbe says that David was around fifty years old when all this
took place and if Solomon was their fourth child then David would have been
somewhere around 55-60 when Solomon was born and David died at age 70 so
Solomon would have been a very young king.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Romans 8:28 reads as follows, “And we know
that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to
those who are called according to His purpose.”
As I look at some of these incidents that are found in Scripture such as
what is seen in chapters eleven and twelve of 2Samuel I see this as part of the
meaning of Romans 8:28. When I first
started looking at situations like found here I would think that this was all
in God’s plans, which it was, but in a bad sense and not in the sense where God
was showing His grace and forgiveness and using this and other situations to
work out for their good and for God’s glory.
These are very hard things to understand and things that will probably
never be understood on this side of glory.
I
am thankful for the grace of God.
My
Steps of Faith for Today:
1. Trust
that the Lord will give me the strength to finish the task of helping us to get
ready to go to Kauai.
9/25/2010 9:15:10 AM
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