II Samuel 1: 26
"I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was more wonderful than the love of women."
Ungodly people take this verse and twist its meaning into saying that love means sex, and they say they must have been homosexual. Hogwash!
Jonathan loved David with a simple, pure, brotherly love, even conceding David's right to rule over him as king. Real love is an affectionate wanting the very best for the one loved, regardless of the cost.
None of David's wives really loved him, they had to submit to him as king. Even Michal.
II Samuel 6: 16, 20, 23
Then it happened as the Ark of the Lord came into the City of David that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart
"... How the King of Israel distinguished himself today! He uncovered himself today! ..."
And Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no child to the day of her death.
Michal thought she loved David, but she only loved her image of him as a great man of valor and a king. When David took off all of his fancy king's garments and wore only the sleeveless shift that the priests wore while ministering, she saw him as just a common man, as he was, which violated her idea of who she wanted him to be.
All men and women are equal before God, and David knew that. That's why, "The ground at the Foot of the Cross is level," because every person has an equal chance to accept His Sacrifice on His Altar, the Cross, as their personal Sacrifice. That's why He came. That's how much God loves us, loves you.
So, dear reader, please think about and consider that we all deserve death, and Jesus died for each of us, individually. To, "repent and believe," means to admit you deserve death for your wrongdoings, and believe that Jesus took your place on the Cross.
When you have done this, then God will put His Holy Spirit into your spirit, which has been dead, and make it alive with His own Life; then you will have both your human nature and God's, and be able to fulfill His plan for your life. Then you will be on your way to Heaven.
So if you consider your sins only a part of His sufferings, you are still under wrath: He died for all of us corporately for judgment. His death fulfilled all the sacrifices laid out in the Old Testament.
And He is coming soon. Make sure you are ready to meet Him face to face.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
