"Let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. "
1 Corinthians 10:12
NOT ME
Read It: 2 Samuel 11:6-17
As you read 2 Samuel 11, realize that David is coming off of about twenty years of spiritual success. Yes, he blew it a lot as a young man, but he's had two decades of spiritual strength. We are talking about the David who killed Goliath, the "sweet singer of Israel" who wrote many of the psalms, the man after God's own heart. But on this evening, a woman captivated David. We are not seeing a man who was carnal, trying to be immoral, or looking to fall into sin. We are seeing a manwho was tempted and yielded. David saw Bathsheba that night, but it's what he didn't see that would change the rest of his life. He didn't see that his sin would cause four of his children to die (the baby, Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah). He didn't see that this one night would split his kingdom in half. He didn't see that he would become a murderer. That's the problem with sin.
My friend, if you are looking at things you ought not to look at, imagining things you ought not to imagine, or planning ning things you ought not to do, remember that you are not seeing the whole picture. And it's what you don't see that will get you. So David commits sin with Bathsheba; she gets pregnant, and now he's got to cover this mess up somehow. He can't let anyone know what happened. pened. It's always bad when it's a king in this situation, because a king can do whatever he wants to get rid of problems. So David devised Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C. Plan A was to bring Bathsheba's husband Uriah home from the front, have him relax, and spend the weekend with her so the baby would appear to be his. But Uriah was too loyal a soldier. Getting him drunk and then trying to send him home, Plan B, didn't work either. Plan C wasn't so tame. It was murder. Put Uriah on the front line unprotected tected so the enemy would kill him. Tragically, Plan C worked. Many of us would say, "I could never do that." Better watch out. You can do anything when Satan gets hold of you. Think About It Twenty years of spiritual success didn't mean David would never fall. What you did yesterday doesn't guarantee you spiritual success today.
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