Psalms 25 – 27
“Let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.” I wonder what constitutes transgressing with cause. Either there is no such thing or else that should refer to cases such as Nephi killing Laban. Perhaps David is thinking of his using consecrated bread to feed his men.
It just occurred to me that I might be too hard on David. How many years did he spend after having Uriah killed? (I’m not sure but it was decades.) And how righteous was he during that time? (Again I can’t be sure but possibly very righteous even as he suffered the consequences of his sins.) I think my hardness is based in being disappointed in seeing the real, flawed man after growing up hearing the stories that glorify him and minimize his greatest sins and, more than that, after he was so good in his youth. Perhaps the reason he is glorified and the reason he was as good as he was in his youth was because he was consistently afflicted without cause and had greater need to ever place his trust in the Lord.
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