Through The Bible in a Year - March 24, 2026

“When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him… But my steadfast love will not depart from him.” – 2 Samuel 7:14-15

David’s failures were great. Yet, God made a covenant with David to provide steadfast love that would not depart.

The covenant came before David’s sin with Bathsheba. Before the murder of Uriah. Before the king’s failed parenting. Before the king’s terrible expression of pride. God knew it all and stillpromised steadfast love.

Would David face consequences? Absolutely. Terrible, painful consequences. His family was torn apart. His son Absalom rebelled. David had toflee Jerusalem barefoot and weeping, his kingdom in ruins.

But even at his lowest point, climbing the Mount of Olives with nothing left, David had one thing: God’s steadfast love.

Discipline doesn’t mean God has walked away. It means He loves you enough to correct you, to bring you back, to keep pursuing you even when you’ve run from Him.

God told David his offspring would build an eternal kingdom. Solomon would build the temple—but Solomon would also turn away from God, marry foreign wives, dishonor everything. Yet God’s love for David continued with the promise: “Your throne shall be established forever.”

A successor would eventually come through the line of David, one who was a greater David—Jesus Christ. He would come from this broken, messy lineage to be the perfect King who saves all the broken, messy people because of God’s covenant love that is not based on human perfection but on divine mercy and steadfast love.

Respond: Where have you experienced God’s discipline in your life? How does knowing discipline isn’t departure change your view of God’s correction? What past failure do you need to release to God’s mercy, trusting in God’s steadfast love?

Prayer: Lord, I have failed You and I will fail You again. Thank You that Your love is steadfast—unchanging, unshakeable, never departing. Help me receive Your discipline as proof of Your love, not evidence of rejection. When I cry out, You provide pardon and peace even in the midst ofconsequences. When I turn around from my wandering from you, You’re right there. You never left. Thank you. In Jesus’ name, Amen.