II Samuel 24.24b, 25

“So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel”
(II Samuel 24.24b, 25).
There was still another happy day in David’s history, when God brought him to the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. He had been tempted to number the people, as though his strength depended on them and on the size of his army. So God had to punish him, and he repented at the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
It had been a very grievous sin, but God had forgiven him, and that is why it was such a happy day in David’s life. Is it not a very happy day in your life, when God forgives you some grievous sin done in blind disobedience to His will?
January 17th