Monday, April 8
Read 2 Samuel 11
Think About It:
David’s temptation and sin illustrates the truth of James 1:14-15, “but each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.” It isn’t difficult to see how it all developed. David saw a beautiful woman and took her. When David laid aside his armor, he took the first step toward moral defeat, and the same principle applies to believers today (Ephesians 6:10-19). Without the Helmet of salvation, we don’t think like saved people; and without the breastplate of righteousness, we have nothing to protect the heart. Lacking the girdle of truth, we easily believe lies, and without the sword of the Word and the shield of faith, we are helpless before the enemy.
David plotted a scheme to bring Uriah back home to lie with his wife so that his sin would not be discovered. David did not contemplate Uriah’s integrity. As he went back to battle, Uriah took his own death notice. Joab played into the scheme by placing Uriah where he surely would be killed.
After Bathsheba mourned for the death of her husband, Uriah, David brought her into his house, she became his wife, and she bore him a son. But this thing David had done displeased the Lord.
- David was such a wonderful man. The Bible tells us he was a man after God’s own heart. Yet he can still do this evil thing. Careful what you let in your heart. Little things will creep in and take more and more territory. Compromise most often leads to sin. Ask the Lord to create in you a clean heart and root out any compromise.
Family Time:
- At the time when kings go to war, where was David? (1)
- What resulted from David’s affair with Bathsheba? (5)
- How did David attempt to cover up his sin? (6-13)
- How did David have Uriah put to death? (14-17)
- What did David then do with Bathsheba? (27)
