At times I read something that just makes me sad. Like the end of the list of David’s mighty men, the greatest warriors in all of Israel. The last name in the lineup?

Uriah the Hittite.

David’s adultery with Bathsheba was bad, and his subsequent ordering of the murder of her husband was even worse. The fact that David killed one of his own warriors, a man committed to the king and country, shows the heinous nature of his crime.

Few commit the blatantly evil sins of David. But I am guilty of sacrificing others in small ways to get what I want. What David had the power to do so on a large scale, I do in miniature regularly.

Fortunately, I see the depths of God’s grace in the story of David. Which reminds me of his grace towards me and you. Which reminds me to take time to treat those around me with value, not simple as means to get what I want.

2 Samuel 23 in reading the Bible cover to cover in 2022

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