We Need a Nathan!

We need a Nathan, because sin is powerful. Just ask King David. You remember David. He stayed home from battle, saw a woman, slept with a woman, got the woman pregnant, and murdered her husband to covered it up.

Some time later God sent Nathan. Nathan's method of confrontation is classic. He told a story about a rich man who defrauded a poor man. David was furious. He demanded to know the identity of the rich man. So Nathan told him without hesitation, "You are the man."

We need a Nathan who will get in our face to tell us we are the ones who have sinned. We need him because sin lulls us into self-deception. We cannot see our blind spots. (They are after all blind spots). So we need someone who will love us enough to tell us truth. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was right when he said, "Nothing can be more cruel than the tenderness that consigns another to his sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe rebuke that calls a brother back from the path of sin. It is a ministry of mercy."

Because of Nathan, we have Psalm 51, which is a Psalm of revival. So, Lord bring us a "Nathan" and send us revival.