Banished?

¹³ The woman said, “Why then have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, for the king has not brought back his banished son? ¹⁴ Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him.
¹⁵ “And now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king; perhaps he will grant his servant’s request. ¹⁶ Perhaps the king will agree to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who is trying to cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’
¹⁷ “And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king secure my inheritance, for my lord the king is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil. May the Lord your God be with you.’”


This is very significant to what David went through. He did not banish His son Absolum, but He did not recall him back to our kingdom. Joab is testing the king based on his own logic. If he can allow this decision to be done upon the women, the king must be able to bring forth this same attitude and logic upon himself. This is to pardon a sin, a murder. This spoke to me in the sense that if the leader does not does and belive in whatever he preach? Then who is he to preach. God is a good example. He does what He preaches. He preached about love. God sent His Son(essentially Himself) down to earth to show us that. He did not just talk, just preach, but He showed us that. As I grow in my Christian faith, it is important that I do what i preach. I believe in what i preach. That i may be truthful to myself and to God.