10.27.23 - II Samuel 11: 5, 26-27
Whose voice, in your sphere of influence, is God calling you to help amplify? How might you build the stage upon which they can speak?
The woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”... When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she made lamentation for him. When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son.
Bathsheba’s voice is almost absent from this passage.
It is dominated by the powerful man who lusted after her body, had sex with her, impregnated her, attempted to cover up his actions by impugning the integrity of her husband and then having him killed.
She’s referred to in the third person and we are only given ear to her voice once when she passes the news to King David that she is pregnant with his child.
We cannot know what Bathsheba’s experience of David’s power-over advanced were, or the grief of her husband's death. But we can know that she is one of five women named in the lineage of Jesus in the new testament.
What does this say about who God considers important enough to have influence in contrast to whom David considered important enough?
Can you identify a disparity in the power structures you’re most familiar with? Family? Church? Work? Government?
Which voice does God need to be amplified in your sphere of experience?
--Libby Tedder Hugus