Proper Positioning (2 Samuel 11: 1-3)

“In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. “ What follows is one of the more well known stories of moral failure for David. A story that, at least for us, will always be burned into our memories when reading about the kingship of…