How often the deepest and most profound of injury comes from within the family. This is true whether the family of man, or the family of God, that which we call the body of Christ, the church. Such injury can bring about such a deep sorrow that we flee before the wind, and see no salvation from the night terror that exists beneath the noon day sun. Though it hardly seem possible, how much more the heart despairs when we see former friends and family side with our adversary in this unjust situation and cast doubt upon our knowledge of the Lord and eternal resting place.

We must pause and ask why is David so running from his own son? Does he flee in fear? Is it the mighty warrior king can no longer defend himself? Is this once charismatic man who drew the world to his feet no longer able to speak and quicken the hearts of the people toward himself? Why has God allowed His own anointed to be treated so? These are the questions of life to many in the world today, even as it was then. There are so many lessons and promises in the story of David as it is related to us in the Scriptures. I have seen many draw the parallels between the life of David and our Lord and say David was a type of the Lord. Being fully man and of a woman, it would be inconceivable that we could not find parallels in the life of many and our Lord. Solomon correctly spoke when he said there is nothing new under the sun. The Old testament is that which speaks of Christ, but in a direct and open way, so I don’t seek such "hidden" typology to show Christ in the Old Testament. I find more help for life and living in the peace given by the coming of our Lord in seeing the events so given of God in the Holy Record as testimony of His guidance through the generations to man. Then David isn’t a type of Christ or even an example of how to live before God (which surely, all considered he was not) but from God’s concern so portrayed in the life of His people, we are enabled to see God, and how He will never cease to care for us.

The passage before us is such a place in the Scriptures, where though wronged over and over, even in death we see a father weep for his child. It is thus we hear Jesus lament, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, .... (Mt. 23:37). Don’t hold David up then as some sort of super human, exalted above his brethren. Rather, see how God is faithful to His covenant people and will continually reach out to comfort and help in their time of need. God is faithful to us. God cares, and therefore we can cast our cares upon Him.

We can be different than the world. God has commanded it. God doesn’t require from us what He has not first given. When God says we are to be holy, it immediately is a truth we can do so. The shortcoming is ours, not our God’s. I call it naming your sin. The old crutch I am only human doesn’t hold water. You chose to live this way and you choose to dwell in the pit. We resist change in the flesh, but change we will with the renewal of the Holy Spirit. The psychologist have their own terms for this, I call it the evil of the flesh, the will of the creature which Paul says will be with us until the Lord returns. We are guilty by nature, we commit actual sin by the will of the creature.

So it is though the sin of the will is present in many things we know about David, God doesn’t forget him and is faithful to Him. God blesses despite his many failings and continually cries out in sorrow for the sin of His child. Love is of God and the Bible says God is love. Not the mere emotion and lust man knows love as, but that which is within the very essence of. David exhibits this most precious gift of God, love. How? God is His shield and lifts up his head, not he. Thus when many of this world would point to his often sins and judge this was fit and perhaps the judgment of God, David knew God was with him, and the only source of power needed to overcome the world. The proof? The love exhibited is a pure and precious thing, and such gifts as with all good gifts only come down from the Father of light, even God. In the midst of his most troublesome times, God is with David.

Are you god’s child? Then God is with you despite any appearance to the contrary in the flesh. Salvation belongs to the Lord alone. Why then dare we judge the servant of another? Lift up your heart to God and God will lift you above the circumstances and attack of the world, or even those within the family. The pit that is deep enough to exclude God does not exist. The night that would cover you and hide you from the presence of the Lord will never be. Sing God’s praises in the morning, let then roll from your lips in the mid day sun, shout them from the rooftop in the early shadows of evening, let your soul sing them from the deepness of the night, for God inhabits the praise of His people. God will deliver us from all our enemies. Salvation is of the Lord!

Father of all light and hope, teach me thy precepts that I might sing Thy praises from the depths of the sea, and the heights of the mountains forevermore. Amen