The following two excerpts are from F.W. Krummacher’s “David: King of Israel” in the part of chapter 12 of 2 Samuel when the LORD chastises David.  I appreciated the singular purpose of glorifying the LORD in this first quote, where Krummacher is expounding on verse 14, “given occasion for the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme”

Wholly devoted to God, he desires only this one thing, that the Lord would glorify Himself and defend the honor of His name. It sufficed for him that his sin was forgiven.  This consciousness is his crown as well as the armor in which he now felt himself able successfully to meet all that might happen to him.

Then speaking about the hope that David will go to the child (2 Samuel 12:23) Krummacher writes,

It is true we know that to the saints under the Old Covenant the land beyond the grace was veiled in deep darkness, and was more to them the object of dim anticipation than of a clear penetrating faith.  But we are persuaded that to them also moments of special illumination were not rare, in which they saw opened before them clear prospects into the future world….The world of the bless, of the “just made perfect,” rose up before him, though only in dim outline, and he felt himself richly comforted at the death of his beloved child.

These twin truths are so solid – the believer is never left bereft of help in the most difficult and darkest of times.  God will glorify Himself and defend the honor of His name!  God will give an opening into and insights of the land beyond sense – for the comfort and consolation of His dear people!