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by Bob and Debby Gass
‘Bathsheba-gate’
November 9, 2009
‘Then it happened...’ 2 Samuel 11:2 NKJV
David’s ‘Bathsheba-gate’ began when he let down his guard. The Bible says, ‘Then it happened.’ What an opening line! David was fifty-two. Like a lot of us in middle age, maybe he wondered, ‘Do I still have it?’ Whatever he thought, he wasn’t on guard-and the devil knew it. David had lived victoriously for twenty years, ‘Then it happened.’ Be careful, yesterday doesn’t guarantee your success today. David saw Bathsheba that night, but it’s what he didn’t see that shipwrecked him. He didn’t see that his sin would cause four of his children to die (the baby, Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah) or that it would split his kingdom in half and make him a murderer. That’s the problem with sin. If you’re looking at things you ought not to look at, you’re not seeing the whole picture. It’s what you don’t see that will hurt you. So David devises plan A, plan B and plan C to cover up his sin. Plan A was to bring Bathsheba’s husband Uriah home from battle to spend the weekend with his wife, so that the baby would appear to be his. But it didn’t work. Plan B, getting him drunk and trying to send him home, didn’t work either. Plan C wasn’t so tame; it was murder. Tragically, this plan worked. ‘I’d never do that,’ you say. You’d be amazed what you’d do in a moment of weakness! The fire of sex is meant for the fireplace of marriage. Once it leaves there, somebody’s going to get burned. Bottom line: ‘…let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.’ (1 Corinthians 10:12 NKJV)
SoulFood: 1 Chron 3-5, John 9:13-23, Ps 115, Pr 25:23-25
The Word for Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright © 2009
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