Day 79- You may not go looking for trouble when it finds you.
Today’s Reading: 2 Samuel 11 – 15
2 Samuel 11:2-3 “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?”
Today’s study is a very difficult study. It shows the sinful side of a man after God’s own heart. It reveals to us even though we may follow God faithfully we can still sin against Him. Sometimes our sins, however, may not come from our own choosing but because sin finds us.
Bathsheba must have been a beautiful woman and already caught the eye of many men, but she was officially already married to Uriah. King David, however, must have needed a reprieve from his work when he went for a walk around the roof and caught a glimpse of this beautiful woman bathing bedside his home. She wasn’t looking for trouble but actually trying to do her ritual cleansing from being impure. The king called for her and it would’ve meant her life if she didn’t go, but instead of standing her ground she laid with the king. We don’t know how it exactly went down, but we know she got pregnant. If only she could’ve made a better decision, but maybe she wasn’t in the place to be able to.
Later in this reading we see how Tamar, the daughter of David was abused by her brother. She begged him not to, but he refused to listen because he was so overtaken by her Beauty. In both situations, neither girl was looking for trouble, but their natural beauty caught the eye of some very influential men.
Now this isn’t only for women, I know men have this issue as well. The thing is, we can’t always decide which situation we are going to be found in, but we can make a choice of how each situation ends. First, we need to try and place ourselves in situations that are good, and second if we find ourselves in a not so good place, we need to see how we can get out of it. Third, and most important, when we do find ourselves in sin, like David, we can confess our sin, repent, and be forgiven because of Jesus. This is all up to us because God gives us a choice. What’s yours?
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