Yesterday I passed a flatbed wrecker with a car sitting on the platform. I see them all the time but what caught my eye sitting on the platform was a classic 1956 Chevrolet and did it look good. My first thought was they must be taking that baby to a car show somewhere but as I passed it I took one more glance of it in my rearview mirror and then I noticed that classic had damage to its rear. Now the owner of that vehicle had that classic on its way to the body shop to be fixed. Then I began to think of what I had just seen; looking at that car from the front all you saw was its beauty. The paint shined like new money, everything looked so good until you saw the rear and then the damage could not escape your view. Is that not the way we appear? Hearing us talk, seeing our smile with our golden personality one would never know that the rear had damage that needed to be fixed. Someone somewhere in our lives has marred the clay and we do a good job at covering it up; why just don’t let anyone see the rear. That was the way King David looked; when people saw him coming in his kingly robe with his smile and golden personality, but he kept the rear hidden. All was well until God sent a man by the name of Nathan to him to tell him a story about a family that lived next to a rich man that had one sheep that they loved very much.
2Samuel 12:3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
Now the rich man who had many sheep had a friend that came by and the rich man decided he would feed his guest lamb. Wait, he didn’t go to his herd to get the sheep he goes to the poor man's house and gets the only sheep they have and kills it and feeds it to his guest.
2Samuel 12:4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Oh, this was awful! King David was angry and wanted to know who this man was. He would die and repay as well as restore the sheep because he had no pity.
2Samuel 12:5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:
2Samuel 12:6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity. King David wanted to know who it was that did the awful thing! Well, Nathan told him who it was.
2Samuel 12:7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man.
Nathan just walked around to the rear and was able to see the damage. King David had not only committed adultery with Uriah’s wife but when he found out that she was pregnant with his child he had Uriah killed. King David’s rear end need to be fixed and fixed by the Master. The only problem with that is he wasn’t trying to get it fixed; just keep it covered up. God is not pleased with you and I keeping things in the dark because as long as it’s in the dark our enemy can keep us troubled with it. It could be that you were abused when you were young and your clay was marred and you just don’t let anyone see the rear. You know what? That 1956 Chevrolet, no matter how well it looked from the front it will never win any prize until the rear is fixed. It is the same with you and I. No matter how well we appear to be as long as we ignore the rear and refuse to get it fixed our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ will never be what it should be. Why not let the Lord fix the problem so that the rear will be as bright as the front. Have a great weekend go to a good Church and let the Lord Start work on that rear.
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