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“Within the Seeds” 🌳
📖 AATHAVAN
Bible Meditation – No. 1860
🔆 Thursday, March
12, 2026
“Then Satan stood up against Israel and incited David to count Israel.” — 1 Chronicles 21:1 (NASB)
David was a man of God who was led by the Holy Spirit. He wrote many powerful psalms through which we still rejoice and praise God today. Yet here we see that David was influenced by Satan.
God had lifted David from the sheepfold and made him king. The Lord Himself had delivered and protected him through many difficult situations. However, Satan caused pride to arise in David’s heart. David was tempted to count how many people were under his rule so that he could take pride in the size of his kingdom.
“The king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, ‘Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and register the people, so that I may know the number of the people.’” — 2 Samuel 24:2
Joab, David’s commander, was not a man of God. However, he had witnessed every stage of David’s rise. Through him, God warned David that counting the people was wrong.
“But Joab said to the king, ‘Now may the Lord your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?’” — 2 Samuel 24:3
Even so, David commanded Joab to go and count the people.
Until that moment, David had lived depending on the grace of God. But now he began to set aside that grace and trust in his own strength. Yet because David was a man of God, the Lord did not abandon him. The Spirit made him realize his mistake.
“Now David’s heart troubled him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the Lord, ‘I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, Lord, please take away the guilt of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.’” — 2 Samuel 24:10
However, God was displeased with this act. The very people whose numbers David had taken pride in were reduced.
“So the Lord sent a plague on Israel; seventy thousand men of Israel fell.” — 1 Chronicles 21:14
Yes, instead of destroying His servant David, God allowed many people to perish. Because God had already given His promise to David, He protected him. This too was the grace of God.
Beloved, we should not forget the earlier days in which God led and sustained us, as David did for a moment. Our elevation and success do not come from our own strength but from the grace of God. We must always keep this truth in our hearts. If pride about our achievements arises within us, Satan can deceive us—no matter how great a servant of God we may be. Therefore, let us remain watchful.
“…so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.” — 2 Corinthians 2:11
Divine Message: Bro. M. Geo Prakash
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