Today, I am reading and commenting on  2 Samuel 12-13.

I think that King David gives us a great example on how we should approach sickness and death in our loved ones from the way he reacts to the sickness and death of the son he had through his adulterous affair with Bathsheba.  When the boy got sick, David fasted, mourned, and prayed to God for the boy’s recovery.  Yet, once the boy died, David resumed his normal life and did not mourn any longer.  In other words, David expressed his love for the child while he lived, when it mattered to the child, but got on with his life once the child had died.  In the same way, we should express our love for others while they are alive, when they can appreciate it, rather than waste our time mourning for them when they have died and can no longer experience how much they meant to us.  I am not saying that it is wrong to mourn, just that we should put more effort into expressing our love while those we love are alive than in doing so after their death.

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