Sep 18, 2008 20:45
Samuel 13-14 Matthew 24.
Check it Yo! So here is the skivvy on today's devotional. So today's old testament reading was about murder slander, ape and deceit. no lie that's what the passage was about. This dude named Ammon really wanted to sleep with his brother's sister. now I'm pretty sure that this makes it his sister too which to me is disgusting but whatever. So he devises a plan to fake being sick and when Tamar his sister brings him food he rapes and takes her purity. Her brother Absalom kills him and then flees. David, their father, is disappointed but sends for his son to come back and live in his house but not see his father. 2 years go by and Absalom burns his neighbors field to get his attention. His neighbor then sends for him to see David and David forgive him. I think this in a weird way has an application to real modern day life. So David is similar to God in this reference. David didn't have his son killed because God does not take away life for wrong doing. You do it yourself. That's why David brought his son back into town. However he did not just discard his sons wrong doing. he waited till his son was ready to actively pursue him just like we need to do with God when we do something wrong. Turn and start actively relating with him again. We need to make the effeort when we do something wrong. Otherwise the consequence was in the new testament verse. If we dont try to com back to God and we just say forget following him anymore. He we come to judge us when we are not near him. This is why we need to always be on good terms with God. You never know when the day of judgment is going to be for ourselves. God knows that day. We just need to make sure that we are ready for it. If someone accused you of being a Christian would you have enough evidence to back it up? I'm hoping that i will when that day comes. Im going to screw up but i cant turn away. Otherwise I'm just as Bad as the hypocrites like the passage in Matthew says.
Never turn your back to God. You dont know when its time for him to tap you on the shoulder.
Jordan Plyler original quote.