YOU ARE THE MAN

PRAYER MOMENT  

Saturday 1 February 2014

YOU ARE THE MAN

Pause. Be still in the presence of the Lord.

Reading. Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man. So now the sword will never be far from you house.” (2 Samuel 12)

Reflection. This is the story of David’s crime of killing Uriah so as he can have Bathsheba, Uriah’s wife and how it catches up with him when the prophet Nathan confronts him. Nathan must have shaken in his boots before obeying the word of the Lord and going to tell the king of his offence. What would his leader do? Would he vent his anger of Nathan? David repents but this does not undo the harm to Uriah. David would have to live with his crime for the rest of his life but his repentance meant that he could begin again trusting in the compassion of God and we know that he became renowned as an ancestor of Jesus, Son of David.

Prayer. Lord, you can rebuild the most broken of people when they show a desire to change. Help us and our contemporaries not to harden our hearts when we commit evil but to turn to you in sorrow in the assurance of your compassion.  Amen.