Story time or gifts?
As it turned out we got both “story time” and “gifts.”
The story was the rest of the sordid story of one of the lowest points in David’s kingship. The gifts centred around a single gift, namely the gift of the prophet.
I am consistently amazed at how the compilers of the Lectionary bring texts together in such a way that they speak to me every Sunday. This Sunday the connection was Nathan. Nathan was a prophet in David’s court and it was his parable about a rich man and a poor man that finally got through to David. We sometimes think spiritual gifts arrived at Pentecost but that only proves our fallibility (check out Exodus 31:1-3). Nathan exercised his prophetic gift not by looking into the future but by speaking truth to power.
One of the things I was hoping to accomplish today was to remind you to look for your own spiritual gifts, which I know you have, and then exercise them to the utmost. Let me know if I got it.
Blessings,
