Do You Place God Above All Others?

 

Today's Verse is 2 Samuel 19:6

In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well. 

    Have you not heard what God hath said should be done to a stubborn and rebellious son? And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. Do you not know that it is the parents of such a one that is to lay the charge? But like many today, David loved his children more than the way of God, as we see in this example here. What did Jesus teach us on this matter? If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And in another place, he said it this way, He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. This is the very thing that we are taught by the example of Abraham, who was willing to sacrifice his son Issac, the son of promise, at God’s request. In this David failed, and in failing, he suffered even more. Yet this same man had declared this hope, Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. /Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity. We have all failed to hit the mark, we have all come short of the glory of God. But God has provided redemption though Jesus Christ, even as David has been forgiven of all of his short comings. Amen.

To God be the Glory

Scott

Today’s reading is 2 Samuel 19-21

Tomorrow’s reading will be Psalm 5, 38, 41-42