When David’s day of reckoning comes, he doesn’t run from the light. He doesn’t make excuses. He doesn’t just accept part of the blame. But he says, v13: ‘I have sinned against the LORD’. Such a simple confession. And Nathan responds: ‘The LORD also has put away your sin’. And that’s it. It’s almost an anti-climax! It seems too easy! […]

David responds to the story as he should. But he doesn’t yet see that it’s about him. He’s indignant that someone else would do this – but he can’t see that he’s done things far worse. In fact his religious indignation in vs 5 and 6 is almost sickening. David can talk about God, he can quote God’s law, and […]

In the first verse of chapter 12, after all the scheming and sending and deception, God is the one who sends. That’s good news. It’s good news because it tells us that God won’t allow his servants to remain comfortable in their sin, but will expose it, lest they settle down in it. You may succeed in your unfaithfulness. But […]