"God's Sovereignty"

"Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun." (2 Samuel 12:11 & 12) Maybe not what you would expect to hear based upon the title of today's blog; but it is however the ripple caused by the splash of sin upon the water; where God's sovereignty comes into effect in all of that, is that He is still Supreme in and through all of it!!! After having spent the last two weeks in the first two Psalms, looking at man's mobility and wavering before his God, and seeing God's stability and His Love, we move into the third Psalm; which is the first Psalm with a title, which is, "A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son". This was the evil raised up against David, spoken of by Nathan in the opening text, and was the result of David's sin with Bathsheba. In between this revolt and the sin which David had committed, he may have thought that this consequence had already run it's course. However, it was the previous upset within his household that was the catalyst to Absalom's revolt. If you don't know the story, it involved the rape of Absalom's sister Tamar by her half-brother Amnon. It was the inaction of his father David to punish Amnon for what he had done that caused Absalom to become bitter against his father. I believe that the reason for David's silence on this matter was due in part on his own sin which he had committed, and on the basis of the words which were spoken above by Nathan, and that he would suffer some consequence for the sin that he had committed. What I believe we shall experience through this Psalm, is that God is just, yet He is also mighty to save; even through the harshest of adversities, God will bring us through to the other side; if we just put our faith in Him! If there is one thing that we have learned through the first two Psalms, it is that putting our trust in Him, far out ways the sin that we might commit! Regardless of what you might think about what it means to be justified in Christ, sin still has a rippling effect upon our lives; however, when it comes to our standing with God, we stand before Him as a man or woman that is washed in the blood of His Son...