Today’s Devotion
Topic: Don’t Be Found In This State!
Text: 2 Samuel 11:2-3
One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite. Amen
This is an excerpt of a familiar story concerning David as a King. In spring, at the time when kings go to war, David sent the whole Israelite army to war but he remained in Jerusalem.
One evening, after staying in bed for some time, he got up and started walking around the roof of the palace. It is not accounted for in the bible what he was doing while walking about but, who knows, he probably was getting bored from staying in bed rather than doing what he was supposed to be doing at that season; go to war.
It is said that the devil finds work for idle hands. Like many will say, the rest of David’s actions are history. He called for Bathsheba and lay with her. She became pregnant and David had to find a way to cover up. To do that, he lured an innocent man to get drunk at a time he was not supposed to and later had him killed in a plot.
This single act of idleness triggered numerous subsequent chain reactions. “ Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.
This is what the Lord says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight. You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’” 2 Samuel 12:11-12.
We all have routines that we do a peculiar times in our lives, like pray, have fellowship, study, go to church, go to work, and on and on. However we are tempted from time to time, to abort these things that keep us active and away from the temptations of sin. Do not yield to such temptations. The ripple effects are without number.
So just as today is service day; a day to fellowship with the assembly of God’s people to wage war against principalities, powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places, do not stay in bed. Go to war.
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