Sunday, February 1, 2009
2 Samuel 11:1-5
11:1 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house. And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.” (ESV)
by Leota Stevens
Our enemy chooses the subtle approach when we are off our guard to stage his offensive. Had David been with his troops, as was his custom as king, instead of staying behind from battle, he wouldn’t have been checking out the hottie that lived near the palace. Before reproaching David’s moral failings, we should check for red-flag warnings in our own lives. Was this a one night virtue to vice experience? I don’t think so. The snare of sin becomes less visible to us when we incrementally do the things that focus our attention away from the Lord.
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Daily Bible Meditations are taken from The Helping Hand,a Sabbath School student quarterly for youth and adults. Copyright © 2010, Seventh Day Baptist Board of Christian Education, Inc.
Scripture quotations marked "ESV" are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.
