In Deuteronomy Moses is giving a dissertation on how a king should behave even before the people had asked for a king, even before they had crossed over Jordan and entered the promised land.
In the dissertation, Moses spoke of taking too many wives, gather too many horses, or too much gold, and also that the king should copy the law for himself and read it often.
But David, the first king of God's choosing didn't even follow God's warnings and encouragement for being a king that stood a chance while leading God's people.
So, in today's reading in 2 Samuel 13, one son (Amnon) rapes a daughter (Tamar) from another mother and another son (Absalom) plots and kills Amnon as David watches and eventually has to kill Absalom to retain his kingdom.
What's truly disturbing about this whole soap opera type behavior is that it mostly would have been prevented by having only one wife or two, but not many! And David would have known this had he followed God's warnings about copying and reading God's laws.
We have so much access to the written Word and we are free to choose what version we read and study, but I believe if we will also write down what we think God is saying to us His message becomes more focused and clear.
Please use a message for God to future kings and write His Word down and He will do the writing on your heart.
Pastor Brent
