2 Samuel 12:20

So David arose from the ground, washed and anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house; and when he requested, they set food before him, and he ate.
2 Samuel 12:20

From David’s sin with Bathsheba, a child was born. He tried to hide his sin against the Lord, but the Lord used Nathan the prophet to reveal David’s sin and to proclaim that as a consequence his child would die (2 Samuel 12:13-14). The child indeed became gravely ill, and David fasted, wept, and lay on the ground for seven days. When his servants revealed that his child had died, he did not harm himself as they had surmised, but he got up, went to the house of the Lord to worship, then he ate.

David worshiped because he was certain of his future heavenly reunion with his child (2 Samuel 12:23) and he worshiped because God did not require the punishment due of David, but rather God had forgiven him (2 Samuel 12:13).

Are our walks with the Lord as crucial to us as with David, or when we are running late, do we choose breakfast over devotional time? It is all too easy to let temporal concerns push the spiritual necessities out of our lives, and we must be diligent in guarding our walk with the Lord. May our hearts seek after God, and may we not waiver in our walk with Him.

Jeff Mericle