REDEMPTION
II Samuel 12:24-25
"Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her. So she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Now the LORD loved him, and he sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet: So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD."
Every good story need a climax and a resolution. The resolution to this episode came when David comforted Bathsheba and together they had another son. David was able to comfort Bathsheba because he himself had experienced God's comfort (see II Corinthians 1:3-4) through God's grace and forgiveness. So David was at peace with God and named the child Solomon, which is derived from the Hebrew shalom, which means "peace." But God had another name for the child, Jedidiah, which mean "beloved of the LORD." It is a continual amazement to me that God redeems our human failures to accomplish His good. It is a great God who takes a messy picture and transforms it into something beautiful. We see this in the lineage of the Lord Jesus. The record says, "David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah" (Matthew 1:6). God did not gloss over David's failure, but used it as an example of how He can take a bad situation and bring good from it. What a story of redepmtion. God takes us, sinful as we are, and gives us peace with Himself and makes us His beloved (Ephesians 1:6-7). Bill Gaither caught the mysterious glory of this when he wrote, "Something beautiful, something good, all my confusion He understood. All I had to offer Him was brokenness an strife, but He made something beautiful of my life." What a wonderful God we serve!!!
TODAY'S PRINCIPLE: The story of redemption is God taking something ugly and transforming it into something beautiful.
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Have a "redemption" day. Love you.
II Samuel 12:24-25
"Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her. So she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Now the LORD loved him, and he sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet: So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD."
Every good story need a climax and a resolution. The resolution to this episode came when David comforted Bathsheba and together they had another son. David was able to comfort Bathsheba because he himself had experienced God's comfort (see II Corinthians 1:3-4) through God's grace and forgiveness. So David was at peace with God and named the child Solomon, which is derived from the Hebrew shalom, which means "peace." But God had another name for the child, Jedidiah, which mean "beloved of the LORD." It is a continual amazement to me that God redeems our human failures to accomplish His good. It is a great God who takes a messy picture and transforms it into something beautiful. We see this in the lineage of the Lord Jesus. The record says, "David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah" (Matthew 1:6). God did not gloss over David's failure, but used it as an example of how He can take a bad situation and bring good from it. What a story of redepmtion. God takes us, sinful as we are, and gives us peace with Himself and makes us His beloved (Ephesians 1:6-7). Bill Gaither caught the mysterious glory of this when he wrote, "Something beautiful, something good, all my confusion He understood. All I had to offer Him was brokenness an strife, but He made something beautiful of my life." What a wonderful God we serve!!!
TODAY'S PRINCIPLE: The story of redemption is God taking something ugly and transforming it into something beautiful.
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Have a "redemption" day. Love you.
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