After David's affair with Bethsheba, life spins out of control for David and his family (and soon, the entire kingdom). A brother rapes a sister. Another brother kills a brother. Family members are banished from the kingdom. And it will get worse. But in the midst of all this chaotic depravity, a woman from Tekoa offers these wise words both to King David and to us:
Our lives are like water spilled out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God does not just sweep life away; instead, he devises ways to bring us back when we have been separated from him (2 Samuel 14:14).
What a wonderful statement of hope and a reminder of what God is in the business of doing- devising ways to bring us back when we get lost.
Merry Christmas!
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