23 Joab was over Israel’s entire army; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and Pelethites; 24 Adoniram[c] was in charge of forced labor; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was recorder;25 Sheva was secretary; Zadok and Abiathar were priests; 26 and Ira the Jairite[d] was David’s priest.
Joab committed murder there and then and now He is in a place that he wants to be. Do we commit murder to achieve whatever we want too? We murder God's goodness and God's plan so that we can get our way. Do we recognize that He reigns over our lives and He is the only entity that does not change, God is the only constant! I recognize that sometimes i am like Joab, just because of jealousy, for selfish reasons, I killed God's goodness for my selfish desires.
21 During the reign of David, there was a famine for three successive years; so David sought the face of the Lord. The Lord said, “It is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house; it is because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
God disciplines! We rarely see God doing this. Rarely does He comes out and punish people. He does but He is graceful. This reminds me that whatever we do here on Earth, we ultimately need to account that to God. As to why we did it and all. Just as we account to our authorities, we would need to account to God Himself. Know that He is Lord. For He is Lord and He is Good.
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