Bible Tuesday - David Part 17

When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.  When the period of mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her to the palace, and she became one of his wives. Then she gave birth to a son.
2 Samuel 11:26-27

If you didn't know any better, you would have to think that David had just gotten away with murder...literally.  Clearly at least nine months have passed.  Do you think David was getting all excited about the new baby?  Do you think he convinced himself that his actions must have been 'God's Plan' because everything was going so well.

Hear me on this.  Every great thing that happens to you is not God's blessing on your behavior.  And every bad thing that happens is not God's punishment for you.  Sometimes your company just gives you a bonus.  Don't try to use that as a way to confirm that God is completely enamored of your actions.  And sometimes your car just breaks down in the rain when you have no money to fix it.  Don't beat yourself up over every bump in your road by deciding God hates you.  He doesn't.

David is about to figure this out.

But the Lord was displeased with what David had done.
2 Samuel 11:27

Oh snap...

So the Lord sent Nathan the prophet to tell David this story: “There were two men in a certain town. One was rich, and one was poor. The rich man owned a great many sheep and cattle.  The poor man owned nothing but one little lamb he had bought. He raised that little lamb, and it grew up with his children. It ate from the man’s own plate and drank from his cup. He cuddled it in his arms like a baby daughter. One day a guest arrived at the home of the rich man. But instead of killing an animal from his own flock or herd, he took the poor man’s lamb and killed it and prepared it for his guest.”
2 Samuel 12:1-4

You see where this is going, right?  Yeah, well David didn't.

David was furious. “As surely as the Lord lives,” he vowed, “any man who would do such a thing deserves to die!  He must repay four lambs to the poor man for the one he stole and for having no pity.”
2 Samuel 12:5-6

Ya'll,  David was FURIOUS.  He just cannot believe somebody would act so horribly.  The dude is less than a year away from stealing a man's wife and then MURDERING him and he is already so self-righteous that he can get mad at this made up sinner in Nathan's story. 

Here comes one of the best scripture moments evah!

Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man!
2 Samuel 12:7

At this point you have to take a minute to love on Nathan.  That could not have been an easy day.  God tells him to confront THE KING (who could kill him 10,000 different ways just for smelling funny) and Nathan does it.  And he does it hardcore.

I love it even more because Nathan not only calls David on his sin, he kinda humiliates him in the process.  This is no accident.  There's a little too much pride in our boy David.  God is going to have to deal with that as he molds David into a man after His own heart.