David gets Information about Bathsheba (A Big Mistake) (2 Samuel 11:3)

9/18/2010 6:15:24 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                                                                              Focus:  Information

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  2Sam. 11:3

            Message of the verse:  “3  So David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, ‘Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?’”

            Dr. Wiersbe writes “When God forbids something and calls it sin; we shouldn’t try to get more information about it.”  This is what David is doing in this verse and when he got the information he found out it was his neighbor’s wife.  The last commandment states that you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife and another commandment states that you shall not commit adultery.  Bathsheba’s husband was one of David’s top soldiers who was fighting for Israel at this time on the battlefield.  Her father was one of David’s mighty men and her grandfather was Ahithophel, who one of David’s trusted counselors, who when the rebellion with Absalom came about would side with Absalom and then would eventually hang himself.

            David knew the law, but he came to the point where that did not matter for he had already committed adultery with Bathsheba in his heart and would now do it physically with her for he had gone too far down the slippery slope of sin.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I quoted in yesterday’s SD 2 Cor. 10:5b where Paul writes about taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.  David did not actually know that verse but I’m sure that after this was all over he realized that temptation began in his mind and that would have been the easiest place to put a stop to it before it became sin, and it became sin when he began to dwell on it and that would have been the next easiest place to stop it.

            The spiritual meaning from this verse for me is to stop all of this before it gets this far and also learn to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

My Steps of Faith for Today:

1.      Take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

2.      Trust the Lord to allow me to be a good witness for Him as I go to our 45^th class reunion this evening.

9/18/2010 6:37:48 AM