Saturday, March 29, 2014

From Lust to Hatred (2 Samuel 13:15-23)


9/28/2010 8:27:50 AM

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY

 

My Worship Time                                                                  Focus:  From lust to hatred

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                     Reference:  2Sam. 13:15-23

 

            Message of the verses:  “15  Then Amnon hated her with a very great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, "Get up, go away!" 16  But she said to him, "No, because this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other that you have done to me!" Yet he would not listen to her. 17  Then he called his young man who attended him and said, "Now throw this woman out of my presence, and lock the door behind her." 18  Now she had on a long-sleeved garment; for in this manner the virgin daughters of the king dressed themselves in robes. Then his attendant took her out and locked the door behind her. 19  Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her long-sleeved garment which was on her; and she put her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went. 20  Then Absalom her brother said to her, "Has Amnon your brother been with you? But now keep silent, my sister, he is your brother; do not take this matter to heart." So Tamar remained and was desolate in her brother Absalom’s house.

    “21 ¶  Now when King David heard of all these matters, he was very angry. 22  But Absalom did not speak to Amnon either good or bad; for Absalom hated Amnon because he had violated his sister Tamar.”

 

            Dr. Wiersbe believes that Absalom had a mind to become king in place of his father David and because he was the second son he knew that Amnon had to be dealt with so perhaps this was going through his mind that he would avenge Tamar, get rid of Amnon, and then put himself in line to be king because he was the second son born to David.

            This story is about lust and not love for under the law Amnon could never merry Tamar because he and she were half sisters.  In verse seventeen the word woman is not in there so in affect Amnon was saying of Tamar to get this thing out of here.  How would Tamar ever get a husband now that Amnon had rapped her?  What could David do about all of this because of his sin with Bathsheba?  It all goes back to the sin that David committed with Bathsheba for all of this was happening as fallout from those sins.  David killed Uriah and now Absalom would kill Amnon so the apple did not fall to far from the tree.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  The question is what can I learn from this story of lust and rape and then murder?  Seek the Lord to help me love my wife in a godly manner, a manner to protect her as at times this has not been done by me.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:

 

1.      Seek the Lord to help me increase my love for Him by keeping His commandments and in turn love my wife more.

 

9/28/2010 9:01:33 AM

 

           

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