The story of Tamar, Amnon and Absolom is one of the most tragic in scripture. After the Bath-sheba incident David lacked moral authority to enforce the law of Moses. And he reaped lawlessness in his own family. Imagine that the king's family would think, as Tamar did, that the king would permit brother to marry sister? And the king would have no response beyond anger to the news of rape among his children?
We tie ourselves up in our own indulgences until we cannot do what is right. Then we can't do the hard things that are needed.
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