RECONCILIATION

2 Samuel 14:13-14
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust.

Joab Arranges for Absalom’s Return

13 She replied, “Why don’t you do as much for the people of God as you have promised to do for me? You have convicted yourself in making this decision, because you have refused to bring home your own banished son. 14 All of us must die eventually. Our lives are like water spilled out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God does not just sweep life away; instead, he devises ways to bring us back when we have been separated from him.


Avoiding a confrontation doesn’t bring reconciliation. In fact, the story of David, Absalom, and Joab shows us that avoidance brings the opposite result … escalation of the issue (2nd Samuel 14-15).

In the midst of this story we find this wonderful reminder that God is always working to reconcile us to Him. His greatest work of reconciliation was the death of His Son on the Cross for our sins. Sin separates us from God. Do you view the consequences of your sin as God devising “ways to bring us back when we have been separated from him”?

Thank you Father for the consequences!