Why,
Then,
Have
You Despised The Word Of The Lord
And
Done This Horrible Deed?
Scripture
2
Samuel 12
2 Late one
afternoon, after his midday rest, David got out of bed and was
walking on the roof of the palace. As he looked out over the city, he
noticed a woman of unusual beauty taking a bath.
3 He sent
someone to find out who she was, and he was told, “She is
Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
9 Why,
then, have you despised the word of the Lord and done this
horrible deed? For you have murdered Uriah the Hittite with the sword
of the Ammonites and stolen his wife.
10 From
this time on, your family will live by the sword because you have
despised me by taking Uriah’s wife to be your own.
11 “This
is what the Lord says: Because of what you have done, I
will cause your own household to rebel against you. I will give your
wives to another man before your very eyes, and he will go to bed
with them in public view.
Observation
The
high price one pays for a few moments of pleasure!
The
story of David and Bathsheba is one of the saddest stories in the
Bible. With all of the great heroic stories about King David in the
Bible there is this one dark story in David's life.
I
think God put the story in the Bible to show us how destructive the
sin of adultery will be in our life if we let down our guard and
yield to its temptation.
King
David took Bathsheba and committed adultery with her. Why did he do
that? He had other wives.
To
make matters worse David had her husband murdered trying to cover up
this horrible sin. From this point on, King David's life will never
be the same. Even though David repented and asked God for forgiveness
of this horrible sin, the terrible consequences of this sin never
leaves King David and never leaves his family.
So
lets not think for a minute that we can sin the way King David did
and get away with it with no consequences. The Lord didn't bring
Bathsheba into King David's life for David to commit adultery with
her.
What
David did with Bathsheba, our God had nothing to do with … all the
responsibility of that deed falls on David.
David's
moral failure and its horrible consequences are in the Bible to warn
us of the danger of committing adultery.
Proverbs
6:32-33
But
the man who commits adultery is
an utter fool, for he destroys himself.
33 He
will be wounded and disgraced. His shame will never be erased.
Application
I
will guard my heart. How about you?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, it saddens me to even read this story about King David. Too
many people in my life have gone down this same path. I know that You
are a God of grace, mercy, and forgiveness. I know that You love us
in spite of our sins. Help me to repent quickly when I sin. Don't let
me mess up my life with stupid sins that have huge consequences.
Don't let me step across the guardrails that I have established for
my life.
Daily
Bible Reading: 2 Samuel 11,12; Psalms 51; Matthew 23
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