We Cannot Bring Back the Dead

Note from today’s Bible reading: 2 Samuel 11-12; 1 Chronicles 20

Following David’s sin with Bathsheba, Nathan delivered a message from God that the child conceived in his act of adultery would die (2 Samuel 12:14). However, after the child was born, David prayed and fasted for a week, hoping that the Lord would allow the child to live.

After David received news of the child’s death, he “washed, anointed himself, and c…