What Does Jehovah's Forgiveness Mean for You? - DAVID CHANGES HIS ATTITUDE

Of course, Jehovah sees everything, so he knew what David had done.  (Proverbs 15:3) Even though King David married Bath-sheba after Uriah died, "the thing that David had done appeared bad in the eyes of Jehovah." (2 Samuel 11:27)  So, what did God do?  He sent his  prophet Nathan to David.  Since Jehovah is a God of forgiveness, He wanted to show mercy to David. But he needed to find out whether David was  truly repentant. It is very encouraging that Jehovah was willing to do this.  He did not force David  to confess but simply  told Nathan to tell the king a story that showed how bad David's sins were.  (Read 2 Samuel 12:1-4) That  was a very good way for Jehovah to find out David's true feelings!

The king thought that what happened in Nathan's story was unfair. David became angry at the rich man in the story and said to Nathan: "As Jehovah is living, the man deserves doing this deserves to die!"  then Nathan said to David:  "You yourself are the man!"  This was very shocking to David.  Nathan said that because of David had done, he would experience  tragedy and members of his family  would die violently .  He would also be humiliated  in public for his sins. Because of what Nathan said, David realized how bad his sins were.  He felt very sorry  and said: "I have sinned against Jehovah." - 2 SAMUEL 12:5-14.


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