2 Samuel 12:20 And he went into the house of the Lord and worshipped.

When his baby son was sick he lay on the ground, fasted and prayed

But God was, as always, bound to have his way.

He still wondered whether the Lord would be gracious, 

For he’d followed him and fought his battles through the ages.

Then his innocent baby son died, 

to never again return to his side. 

Then he washed and from the ground arose, 

He ate food and changed his clothes, 

And he went into the house of the Lord and worshipped.

Through his sadness and hurt,

Through the days of laying in the dirt,

He went into the house of the Lord and worshipped.

After all of the faithfulness of the Lord to him through his life,

After his own manipulation and indiscretions with Uriah’s wife.

He went into the house of the Lord and worshipped.

This was, after all, the Lord he leaned on from before his birth, 

The Loving father who’d always been kind and just, foremost and first.

For the plans of a man’s heart are many, we’re often lead by pain-

But it is God’s purpose that has and always will and forever remains.

- evieroo

Context: King David after he lost a child from Bathsheba.