When David says: ‘I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing’, those are his final words in the whole book. They’re words that are important for us all to think about. Because it’s scarily possible to have an outward profession of religion, which doesn’t actually cost us anything – a one-hour a week […]

If you’re not yet a Christian, the 70,000 dead bodies this chapter tells us about is a message to us that sin is far more serious than we realise. You may not think your sin is a big deal. But are you going to trust your fallen human mind on that over God? If you don’t think your sin is […]

David says in verse 17: ‘Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done?’ David can see his own sin more clearly than the sin of others. And that’s the way it should be – but so often isn’t. David here is willing to take more than his fair share of the blame. […]