Nathan rebukes David. Was he scared to do this? how would I respond if God revealed somebody's secret sin to me and told me to rebuke them? Also, how would I respond if rebuked? David gets it. "I have sinned against the Lord" (v13). He recognises his sin and repents, rather than getting defensive or justifying it. he recognises that the worst part about this is that he has sinnned against God (ref psalm 51). We might look at this and think that we've never commited adultery or murdered anyone, and that may be true, but we have turned our back on God and gone our own way, and in that respect, we are just like David. We need to repent.
David's response to his child's illness/death is interesting. He pleads with God, hoping that God will be gracious. Recognising that it would be God's grace that would restore this child's health, God didn't owe David anything. When God doesn't answer and the child dies, he goes and worships God. this might seem like the last thing we would want to do. But he is not worshipping God for what has happened, but for who God is. We might feel in or out of the mood to worship God based on our circumstances or what we perceives God has/hasn't done for us. that is idolatry, we are more concerned with getting God's stuff than we are with getting God. We worship God based on who He is and what He did on the cross, not on the basis of our own circumstances.
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