ODB: Collision Course
January 7, 2012
We have to face our sins before we can put them behind us.
READ: 2 Samuel 12:1-15
Be sure your sin will find you out. —Numbers 32:23
My wife and I were driving on an expressway when we saw a driver turn left into a median turnaround that was intended for emergency vehicles only. He was planning to make a U-turn and head back the other way.
Looking to his right, the driver waited for an opening in oncoming traffic, so he failed to notice that a police car was backing up toward him on his left. Finally seeing an opening in traffic, the U-turn driver pulled out and rammed into the back of the police car.
It’s not unusual for us to think we can get away with doing something wrong. After King David committed adultery with Bathsheba, he too was focused on “getting away with it.” But he was on a collision course with Nathan. His adultery, deceit, and murder “displeased the Lord” (2 Sam. 11:27), so when Nathan exposed David’s grievous sin, the king was deeply remorseful. He confessed, repented, and received God’s forgiveness. But the consequences of his sin never departed from his household (12:10).
If you’ve been trying to get away with something, remember that “your sin will find you out” (Num. 32:23). Turn yourself in to God. Don’t hide. Instead, seek His gracious forgiveness.
— Dennis Fisher
Source: Our Daily Bread
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The difficulty in making confession to God is not so much of whether God will forgive and forget rather we have to resovle some issues within our hearts and proper deal with our ego and gulity emotions that comes along with it. Nevertheless, it will be a on-going battle that we have to fight.