David had to pay the price for his sin. He knew he could no longer hide. So rather than wallowing in self-pity, David sought God’s forgiveness and redemption. The fact of the matter is this, we are all sinners and all have fallen short of God’s glory (Romans 3:23), but we have a choice to make.

David had to pay the price for his sin. He knew he could no longer hide. So rather than wallowing in self-pity, David sought God’s forgiveness and redemption. The fact of the matter is this, we are all sinners and all have fallen short of God’s glory (Romans 3:23), but we have a choice to make.

Imagine how these words we read today landed on David’s ears. The prophet of the Lord, Nathan, put the sin of David into perspective. We see that David’s rage was boiling, he detested the wickedness of the wealthy man in the story.

Ever hear the saying, “idle hands are the devil’s workshop”? David was considered by God as a man after God’s own heart, yet this godly man became idle. In verse one of today’s reading, we see that when King David was supposed to be off to war, he stayed home.

This appears to be the final straw with the Lord’s Prophet Samuel. Samuel replies with an indictment of Saul. One of the more fascinating things we see in his indictment is that the sins King Saul was guilty of were rebellion and arrogance, which the Lord compares to divination (fortune telling) and idolatry; these were the same sins the Amalekites were destroyed for. Because he would not repent, King Saul was informed he was no better than the wicked people he had just warred against. We must be sure not to have selective hearing of God’s Word, but to listen to all of the commandments of Christ.