GOD IS BIGGER THAN MAN

SATAN STOOD AGAINST ISREAL AND MOVED DAVID TO TAKE UP A CENSUS IN ISREAL. THIS CESUS WAS NOT OF GOD. DAVID WANTED TO SEE THE SIZE OF HIS ARMY. THIS WAS A MATTER OF PRIDE, DAVID BEGAN TO PUT HIS TRUST IN MAN RATHER THAN GOD. BUT IT DID NOT TAKE DAVID A LONG TIME TO REALIZE WHAT HE HAD DONE SO HE RENTED BEFORE GOD. SOME CRIMES ALLOWS JUST A SLAP ON THE WRIST FOR PUNNISHMENT BUT THIS SIN DAVID COMMITED WARRANTED SUFFERINGS. GOD SENT THE PROPHET TO DAVID TO OUTLINE THREE MEANS OF PUNNISHMENT BUT DAVID SAID HE RATHER TO FALL IN THE HANDS OF THE LORD BECAUSE HIS MERCIES ARE GREATER THAN THAT OF MAN. GOD SENT OUT HIS WARRING ANGEL AND ISREAL LOST 70 000 MEN. THE JUDGEMENT CAME TO AN END WHEN IT REACHED JERUSALEM BY THE THRESHING FLOOR OF ARAUNAH THE JEBUSITE. GOD ORDERED DAVID TO GO TO THIS THRESHING FLOOR TO BUILD AN ALTER THERE TO MAKE SACRIFICES TO HIM. ARAUNAH OFFERED DAVID THE THRESHING FLOOR, THE OXEN AND THE WOOD FOR THE SACRIFICE FREE OF COST BUT DAVID SAID ''TO OFFER A SACRIFICE TO GOD THAT COST ME NOTHING IS NO SACRIFICE AT ALL.'' GOD PUT AN END TO THE JUDGEMENT WHEN DAVID TRULY REPENTED. DAVID ASKED GOD TO PUNNISH HIM AND HIS HOUSEHOLD AND SPARE THE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY WERE INNOCENT. IT WAS HE HIMSELF THAT COMMITED THAT SIN BEFORE GOD. LET US REMEMBER THAT WE SHOULD TOTALLY PUT OUR TRUST IN GOD AND NOT OUR OWN WISDOM OR STRENGTH. ''GOD IS BIGGER THAN MAN.''