What are you trying to drag into the New Year that was over last year? There are some situations/relationships that have died and we are doing everything in our power to keep them alive. We are fasting and praying, naming and proclaiming, jumping and shouting, but it is over. In this passage of scripture we find that David had a child with the wife of another man and as much as he prayed and sought the Lord for the child to live, he still died. However, the manner in which David handled the loss was astounding to some onlookers. He jumped up quickly, pulled himself together and moved on.
Why do we have such a difficult time with moving on? Don’t allow your emotions to be an enemy against your future; know when it’s time to let some things go and move on.
When it’s over, it’s over! If you continue to read on regarding this story, you’ll find that as a result of moving on, David and Bathsheba bore a son named Solomon, who some regard as the wisest man ever. From that lineage we find our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So what if David had allowed that to overtake him and what if he had refused to move on?
Something in your now is waiting on you to let go of something in your past!
And the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it became ill. David therefore pleaded with God for the child, and David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground. So the elders of his house arose and went to him, to raise him up from the ground. But he would not, nor did he eat food with them. Then on the seventh day it came to pass that the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead. For they said, “Indeed, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not heed our voice. How can we tell him that the child is dead? He may do some harm!”
When David saw that his servants were whispering, David perceived that the child was dead. Therefore David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?”
And they said, “He is dead.”
So David arose from the ground, washed and anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then he went to his own house; and when he requested, they set food before him, and he ate. Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child died, you arose and ate food.” And he said, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who can tell whether theLord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.”
And he said, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who can tell whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.”
