2 Samuel 11:25-27 - Then David said unto the messenger, Thus
shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for
the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against
the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him. And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah
her husband was dead , she mourned for her husband. And when the mourning was past , David sent
and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But
the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
David had sent his men to battle and stayed home….and one
evening…taking a stroll on the roof…he
allowed satan to tempt him with lustful thoughts of a beautiful woman who was
bathing on her roof. He let his lust
become full blown adultery with Bathsheba…got her pregnant...then killed her husband
to cover his sin. Then he took Bathsheba into his home as yet another wife…and
welcomed yet another son into his family.
This man with God’s own heart was far from perfect…for he
let his sedentary lifestyle become an easy target for Satan to begin to control
his thinking. The Bible does not record a reason for his first sin…staying home
from battle….but it does record the progression of sins that David wove to
cover his affair with Bathsheba. Satan took such control of his heart like God…that
it began to grow a thick callous…that kept him from recognizing the cover up as
sin. Each new sin put another layer of
satan’s cold attitude toward the commands of God…until David was controlled
fully by the callouses on his heart…not the true heart of God that existed
underneath.
We’ve all been there….in some way…..we have let a sin enter
into our heart…and acted on it….then covered it with another sin…and covered
that one with yet another. We have
allowed the lies of satan to build such a callous over the heart that we gave
to God…till we believe our own lies and have no remorse for any of the sins
that we commit. And now we live the lie
daily….allowing satan to control the heart of God that is covered and calloused
by so much sin.
This story reminds me to stop and do an inventory of my
actions of late….and consider if I have allowed satan to put any fresh
callouses on my own heart. My heart will
never be entirely immune to satan’s lies until I get to live with God in
heaven. I need to take his pumice stone...the Bible…and let it scrub those
callouses right off my heart…so it can soak up the pure love of God…and keep my
heart beating in rhythm with his own. I
need to spend more time in prayer…asking God to wash me clean of any new sins…and
give me discernment to see God’s direction for my life.
Jesus himself warned us while he was here on Earth…for this
story of David’s brush with sin …must not have packed enough punch to speak to
all our hearts. He could foresee the
grip that evil would have on the world…so he allowed Matthew to record his
words of warning and direction in Matthew 24:12-13…. “Because evil will grow,
most people's love will grow cold. But
the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.”
Father…I thank you for the reminder this morning that I am
not immune from the lies of satan… that if followed…will build callouses on my
heart that belongs to you. Help me Lord
to stop each day and consider my actions….and ask you to scrub any callouses
off my heart that keep me from exposing the sin that you want to remove from my
life. Help me keep the heart beating
inside me….a heart that desires to follow only you…even when the road you ask
me to walk is not easy. Expose the lies
of Satan that tempt me to commit that first sin….and reveal to my heart the
scripture that will make satan flee in defeat. Remove every callous from my heart…so it will be easier to feel the
love you place inside it. Amen.
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