Bible Reading Challenge Week 19 Day 1

Our reading challenge for the day is 2 Samuel 16-20. I’ll hit a few highlights. You make comments too and fill in the gaps. What strikes you as specially significant? 2 Samuel 16 - David is confronted with his sin again and again. He responds to this cursing by trusting God. It is not at all an easy time. How much more difficult was it when Jesus, who knew no sin, received cursing on our account. Yet he trusted in the Father, returning blessing for cursing. 2 Samuel 17-18 - David is decisively under attack by his own son with the armies he commands. Finally Absalom is killed. The only “safety” for David is the defeat of his own son. His world has fallen apart and he is filled with mourning. Do we see the peril of sin and its results that clearly? May we never minimize it. 2 Samuel 19-20 - After David is so humbled his supporters begin to return to him. Yet all is not well. The kingdom is tenuous. Does this happen in the church as well? It does. We remember in John 17 that Jesus prays his people may be one as he and the Father are one. May we have such grace of God.