Taking Responsibility

So David said to Abiathar, “I knew that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have caused the death of all the persons of your father’s house.  1 Samuel 22:22

David didn't literally kill anyone, Saul ordered it, Saul's guards refused to do it, and Doeg the Edomite carried out the order. And yet here is David taking responsibility for it. What was this terrible deed? The murder of priests of the Lord, the men and women of their city, and their children and infants, and their livestock. And David, anointed king but still serving Saul, takes responsibility for causing these deaths. What sort of faith does one need to have in the Lord our God to confess such a responsibility before Him? A man after God's own heart of course! 

May God lead us to take responsibility in faith,

Bucky