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David’s story of failure.
Considered Israel’s greatest king - promised a line of succession eternally.
Sort of our George Washington-Abraham Lincoln-John Wayne-(young) Brad Pitt with a dash of Harry Connick Jr.
2 Samuel 11 tells the story of David’s greatest failure: His affair with Bathsheba.
David sees her, wants her, gets her.
Kills her husband when he finds out she’s pregnant.
Marries her.
In chapter 12, Nathan, God’s prophet, confronts David who is doing everything he can to hide the situation.
Finally David confesses:
David went a step further in acknowledging his sin: He proclaimed to all Israel:
A few verses later, he begs God for forgiveness:
David is exhibiting what we used to call “godly sorrow.”
He started off like most of us do:
Try your hardest to hide the wrongdoing.
(let’s call it what it is: sin.)
We’re really sorry when we get caught, right?
Most of us are capable of recognizing that there are consequences to wrongdoing.
Have you ever caught a child red-handed doing something wrong?
There’s that shock and surprise of getting caught.
Then the realization that this isn’t going to go well.
Then wailing and tears - not because they violated the rules but because they got caught.
Reboot recap:
20022 - it’s time to “reboot” our thinking.
If we’re waiting on our circumstances to auto-magically get better, we’re gonna wait an long time.
What we CAN change is our minds (
We can, by God’s grace, restore our minds to “optimum.”
This, in turn, changes our values, morals, beliefs, (our hearts).
Ultimately, resulting in different actions, behaviors.
The “reboot” settings are found in Jesus’ beatitudes in Matt. 5.
This week, we look at:
In these “blessed are” statements, Jesus changes our thinking, feeling and actions to align with Him.
Last week, we considered what it means to recognize our overwhelming need to rely on God.
That we are, indeed, poor in spirit.
This week, in order to find God’s approval (be blessed), we are instructed to mourn.
Good Mourning
We usually use “mourn” in the context of sorrow over loss.
We mourn the loss of a loved one.
We mourn when we have a significant material loss.
It is, in fact, true that God is there for us when we grieve over death.
We have comfort when our circumstances are tragic.
But here, Jesus is prodding us to look inside for that “reboot.”
Mourn, here, is godly sorrow like David’s sorrow over his sin with Bathsheba.
Godly sorrow over what?
Brokenness that leads to sin, rebellion.
Essentially,
God approves of us when we are broken-hearted over brokenness.
We must mourn over our own brokenness.
We mourn over the brokenness we see in people.
Coming Alongside In Comfort
Jesus promises us that the blessing of godly sorrow is to have God come along side of us, to encourage and strengthen us.
That’s what comfort means.
It’s the same root word in Gk. that forms paraclete - Jesus’ description of the Holy Spirit in John’s gospel.
It means “to encourage, to hold up.”
It’s the immediate and continuous presence of God in our lives when we choose to be broken-hearted over sin and rebellion.
The Reboot
Pray - Your will be done.
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