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Second Samuel chapter 13, verse 19. And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she wore

and she laid her hand on her head and went away crying aloud as she went oh this is such a sad chapter in Scripture. So we've seen David's sin against God

in a couple of chapters before this, and now we see the effects of sin spreading throughout

his family in such horrible ways. What happens to Tamar in 2nd Samuel chapter 13 at the hands of her brother

is just horrible in ways that lead her to weep in shame over how she had been hurt.

And as I read this, I just think about the seriousness of sin not only in our lives and our relationship with God.

So 2 Samuel 11, we prayed based on that picture. But here in 2 Samuel 13, we see the disastrous effects of our sin in

others' lives and the hurt our sin brings. And I want to be careful here. I think about a

conversation I was having recently with someone whose sin

had just destroyed a relationship he was in and he has been repentant of that sin. He's

turned from that sin and at the same time there's consequence from that sin that he still feels today.

And I don't want to encourage people just to continually beat yourself up, so to speak, over sin from your past.

At the same time, the consequences of sin in our lives and others' lives should be in our lives a deterrent to future sin. We should hate sin

because of its effect on our lives and our relationship with God and we should hate sin because

of its effect on others' lives. And I just want to pray for us that God would open our eyes to see

how our sin doesn't just affect us,

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