Good Morning Friends,
Bathsheba was pregnant and her husband would
know she had been unfaithful because he was with the army at war. David sent
for Uriah to try to cover their sin, thinking that if he was home he would lie
with his wife and would never know that the child she carried was not his. David’s
plotting did not turn out as he planned. Uriah was unwilling to spend any time
at home while the army was fighting. He stayed with David’s servants. He would
not enjoy his home and his wife while his fellow soldiers were suffering.
David devised a second plan. “In the morning
David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. ‘Put Uriah in the front
line where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be
struck down and die.’" (2 Samuel 11:14-15) David plotted to have Uriah
killed!
David’s sin started with idleness and lust and
then quickly moved to adultery. Next came lies and treachery. It ended with
murder.
Before this episode started David would never
have believed that he would have a good man killed. He would never have
imagined that he would stoop to such sinful behavior. Giving in to one
temptation put him on a path that ended in murder. At any time he could have
turned back to God in repentance -- but his sin blinded him and he kept walking
from bad to worse.
Sin is a trap. James said, “Each one is tempted
when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. After desire has
conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth
to death.” (James 1:14-15) It starts with desire -- it moves to sin -- it ends
in death. No one would choose death if the end of the path was clear at the
beginning. When we give in to the temptation, we are blinded by our own desire
and don’t see the pain that is at the end of the road.
The time to say no to sin is early in the
battle, at the desire stage. If only David had said no to his desire for
Bathsheba.
His, by Grace, Steve
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