9/20/2010 8:16:16 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My
Worship Time Focus: The covering
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2Sam. 11:5-27
Message of the verses: “ The
woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, ‘I am pregnant.’
“ 6 ¶ Then David sent to Joab,
saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.
7 When Uriah came to him, David asked
concerning the welfare of Joab and the people and the state of the war. 8 Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to
your house, and wash your feet." And Uriah went out of the king’s house,
and a present from the king was sent out after him. 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s
house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
10 Now when they told David, saying,
"Uriah did not go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Have
you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"
11 Uriah said to David, "The ark
and Israel and Judah are staying in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and
the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my
house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? By your life and the life of
your soul, I will not do this thing." 12
Then David said to Uriah, "Stay here today also, and tomorrow I
will let you go." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.
13 Now David called him, and he ate and
drank before him, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie
on his bed with his lord’s servants, but he did not go down to his house.
“14 ¶ Now in the morning David
wrote a letter to Joab and sent
it by the hand of Uriah. 15 He
had written in the letter, saying, "Place Uriah in the front line of the
fiercest battle and withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and
die." 16 So it was as Joab kept
watch on the city, that he put Uriah at the place where he knew there were
valiant men. 17 The men of the city went
out and fought against Joab, and some of the people among David’s servants
fell; and Uriah the Hittite also died. 18
Then Joab sent and reported to David all the events of the war. 19 He charged the messenger, saying, "When
you have finished telling all the events of the war to the king, 20 and if it happens that the king’s wrath rises
and he says to you, ’Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Did you not
know that they would shoot from the wall? 21
’Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman
throw an upper millstone on him from the wall so that he died at Thebez? Why
did you go so near the wall?’-then you shall say, ’Your servant Uriah the
Hittite is dead also.’" 22 So the
messenger departed and came and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to
tell. 23 The messenger said to David,
"The men prevailed against us and came out against us in the field, but we
pressed them as far as the entrance of the gate. 24 "Moreover, the archers shot at your
servants from the wall; so some of the king’s servants are dead, and your
servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead." 25 Then David said to the messenger, "Thus
you shall say to Joab, ’Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword
devours one as well as another; make your battle against the city stronger and
overthrow it’; and so encourage him." 26
Now when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she
mourned for her husband. 27 When the
time of mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house and she
became his wife; then she bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight
of the LORD.”
This
is one of the saddest stories in all the Scripture from the standpoint of
Uriah, for he was the innocent one in all of this, the one that was the good
soldier, the one that was the good husband, and his only crime was to marry a
beautiful woman and live near the palace of the king. Uriah would carry his own death sentence
unknowingly to his commander and die for king, country, and his Lord, but
actually would be murdered by his king.
David
was breaking many of the Ten Commandments starting with the hardest one to
keep, for the commandment concerning coveting was a commandment of the mind and
that made it the easiest to break. David
coveted his neighbor’s wife, committed adultery with his neighbor’s wife, then
he bore false witness against his neighbor, and then killed his neighbor to
cover up the breaking of these other broken commandments.
I
have highlighted the last sentence in verse 27, “But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight
of the LORD.” It will be the Lord
who has the last word on all of this, for the only way that David would be able
to live after breaking these commandments is by God’s grace for there was no
sacrifice to offer for the things that David had done.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Humanely speaking this was a series of smart
moves that David did, yet humanely is usually all together wrong for it comes
from the flesh, the old nature and that is the wrong nature to follow. The things that I can learn from all of this
is that it is best to take care of temptations in the mind by taking every
thought captive to the obedience of Christ, and this means that I must have the
mind of Christ, and that means that I must be in a church that teaches the Word
of God so that I can learn the Word of God and then this will give me the mind
of Christ so that when I am tempted I can take the temptation captive to the
obedience of Christ. As stated before
the next place that is easiest to take care of a problem like this is when I
sin in my mind is to confess it at that time and not dwell any longer on
it. The rest will go downhill very fast
if not taken care of in the first two steps like it did for David.
My
Steps of Faith for Today:
1. Take
every though captive to the obedience of Christ.
2. Give
myself to the Lord for worship and service.
3. Put
on the spiritual armor in order to be protected in the battle that is all
around me.
4. Continue
to learn contentment.
5. Love
my wife like Christ loves His Church.
6. Seek
the Lord to direct my path today.
7. Trust
that the Holy Spirit will search my heart for unconfessed sin in order to have
sweet fellowship with my Lord.
9/20/2010 9:01:30 AM
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