got the upper hand? How come you’re on the run, David? Where is your God now, when you need him most?” Perhaps they began to throw David’s sin back in his face: his relationship with Bathsheba, the murder of Uriah, and his failure as a father to Amnon and Absalom. “God’s not going to put up with that sort of thing, David. He’s abandoned you for sure!” Charles Spurgeon was right: If all the trials which come from heaven, all the temptations which ascend from hell, and all the crosses which arise from