“Welcome Home?” – Page 2 - 2/12/2012
Later God taught David lessons on how to walk with him while literally fleeing for his life. King Saul, as you know, knew David was to be the next king of Israel. He hated him and wanted to take David’s life.
Then, as you know, David consolidated Judah and Israel into one nation and was used of the LORD to lead his people in a plain and spiritual path.
Yet, one of David’s temptations led David down a path of spiritual pain. He not only committed adultery with a woman belonging to another man, he made sure that this man died in battle. Then David took this woman for his wife.
God was quite displeased with David’s sin and from that day to the end of David’s life, David felt to effects of that sin.
One of the great questions of life that should come to your heart and mind when you know this man’s story is this. How could God use David to write such wonderful spiritual poetry as the Psalms when he made such a mess of his life?
And the answer is this. God takes great care in cleaning up the messes we make in life (if we let Him). And, by that I mean this. We’ve all made a mess of things at some time in our lives; maybe more than once. Yet, God’s way is to use everything in our lives to convert our characters. Then, as He converts us on the inside, He then is able to use us, not only while we live, but long after we’ve left this world. God is still using King David today.
Folks, none of us deserves to be blessed of God. None of us deserves to be used of God. None of us is so much better than anyone else that we can say “The reason God is blessing me is because I’m so good or I’m so obedient or I’m so trusting.
We are all in the same boat. We all desperately need the LORD. And we all have the same temptibility. Here’s what the Bible teaches.
I Corinthians 10:12 “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
(13) There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
I Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: (9) Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
(10) But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. (11) To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.”
David was a man of God. Yet, like you and me, he sinned. He yielded to temptation, the one temptation that very easy beset Him. Here’s what the NT teaches. Hebrews 12:1 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, (2) Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith…”
This Old English words “which doth so easily beset” is interesting. They simply mean this. Some sins more powerfully surround you than surround your brother or sister. They attack you like an army surrounds a city and attacks it. And you are easily overtaken by those sins.
Then, as you know, David consolidated Judah and Israel into one nation and was used of the LORD to lead his people in a plain and spiritual path.
Yet, one of David’s temptations led David down a path of spiritual pain. He not only committed adultery with a woman belonging to another man, he made sure that this man died in battle. Then David took this woman for his wife.
God was quite displeased with David’s sin and from that day to the end of David’s life, David felt to effects of that sin.
One of the great questions of life that should come to your heart and mind when you know this man’s story is this. How could God use David to write such wonderful spiritual poetry as the Psalms when he made such a mess of his life?
And the answer is this. God takes great care in cleaning up the messes we make in life (if we let Him). And, by that I mean this. We’ve all made a mess of things at some time in our lives; maybe more than once. Yet, God’s way is to use everything in our lives to convert our characters. Then, as He converts us on the inside, He then is able to use us, not only while we live, but long after we’ve left this world. God is still using King David today.
Folks, none of us deserves to be blessed of God. None of us deserves to be used of God. None of us is so much better than anyone else that we can say “The reason God is blessing me is because I’m so good or I’m so obedient or I’m so trusting.
We are all in the same boat. We all desperately need the LORD. And we all have the same temptibility. Here’s what the Bible teaches.
I Corinthians 10:12 “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
(13) There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
I Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: (9) Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
(10) But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. (11) To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.”
David was a man of God. Yet, like you and me, he sinned. He yielded to temptation, the one temptation that very easy beset Him. Here’s what the NT teaches. Hebrews 12:1 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, (2) Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith…”
This Old English words “which doth so easily beset” is interesting. They simply mean this. Some sins more powerfully surround you than surround your brother or sister. They attack you like an army surrounds a city and attacks it. And you are easily overtaken by those sins.