Whom do you prefer: someone who tells you the truth or someone who tells you what you want to hear? The first probably has your benefit in mind. The second has an agenda and will use you as an object to advance his dark purposes. Continue reading
Tag: 2 Samuel
Ask again
Though created in God’s image, man doesn’t know what God thinks. The Lord reveals his thoughts, but he must be consulted. He may be ignored or forgotten, but always to our loss. So it was with David:
And again David asked the Lord what to do.
2 Samuel 5:23a NTL
When King David consulted the Lord, all went well with him. When he failed to consult him, problems arose, such as when the ark was transported wrongly (chapter 6). David learned that “the LORD our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule” (1 Chronicles 15:13 ESV). Continue reading