Good Morning,
I can't wait to drink that first cup of Door County German Chocolate Cake Coffee this morning. I prayed about this message for awhile before deciding to write. So let's go!
Yesterday while listening to a sermon from our pastor he mentioned King David and his act of fornication with a married woman, which led to his planning the death of her husband. During this time of the year David should have been off to war. But for some reason he stayed back and was on top of his roof at night and saw a lady bathing outside. Not having anything to do David went to the roof. He spied a naked beauty and instead of retreating from the roof he stayed and inquired about who she was. Eventually he called her to the palace and the rest is history. She conceived his child and then David, to cover his sin ,devised to have her husband killed on the battlefield.
2 Samuel11:1-5 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.
2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
David could have left the roof. Repented of lusting, And saw to it that he did not go there again. He could have been busy praying for his men on the battlefield. He could have been praying for wisdom on how to lead the nation. He could have been praying for the women left behind when the men went to war, But instead he wandered to the roof and let sin control his actions.
My point for the day is this. In the Lords Prayer it says lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. David's success was only a prayer away. Your next temptation is only minutes away, hours or days, Be in prayer for protection from sin. Read your Bible. Keep busy for the Lord, your family and your vocation. Stay active and healthy and above all, avoid boredom.
It ruined a King, it could easily ruin us.
Marty
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