OT -- 2 Samuel 15:23-16:23
It is hard for me to know who to pull for in these scriptures. David seems so weak and Absalom seems, well, so wicked.
Everyone is betraying David, including David.
I have a hard time believing that he did not want to fight back, to fight on, to crush Absalom. But maybe that is what makes David so David.
He seems ever ready to give into his children even when they are misbehaving. And Absalom, even though he had cause, is clearly behaving badly.
This set of scriptures hurt. It hurts me to read of David and his allowing people to pelt him with rocks and rotten stuff. It hurts me to hear of Saul's grandson's skedaddling for the up and comer. I don't think this will go well with him. Just my prediction.
And isn't this story repeated in our NT scripture today? John 18:25-19:22
That crowd, that just days before was huzzahing into a frenzy is calling for Jesus to be crucified. Is this crowd mentality in both situations? Go with whoever is in power? Or is there something more here?
John speaks of Jesus fulfilling prophesies and I know Jesus did. But human behavior is consistent. Crowd mentality follows the power. Jesus had it and deliberately chose not to use it. To fulfill the prophesy? NO! To save US!
May we attempt to be worthy and may each of us avoid the crowd.
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