Today, I am reading and commenting on 2 Samuel 14-15.

As I started to read this passage I was thinking about the role Joab played in setting up Absalom’s coup attempt, not that Joab did that on purpose.  Or, even the way Absalom set his coup in motion.  However, as I read what the wise woman from Tekoa said to David, it really struck me.  She said, “Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him.”  This seems to me to be a foreshadowing of the Gospel.  God seeks that those who have been banished from His presence by sin do not remain banished.  Each and every one of us has been banished from God’s presence by sin, but God does not desire for us to remain banished from Him.  So, He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us so that we might not remain banished from His presence.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.