Do you regularly evaluate your thoughts?
Perceive: At the end of this dark chapter in David’s life, he thinks the incident and his sin has reached a conclusion, but it has not. Upon hearing of her husband’s death, the wife of Uriah mourns for her husband. In what may have been a month (Numbers 20:29; Deuteronomy 34:8), David sends for her, and she becomes his wife. Their son is born, they settle in with new lives, and the sun rises as it has in the past. Outside of a few people, no one knows the depth of David’s deceitfulness. However, the Lord knew, and Scripture ends this chapter with a clear indictment against our hero, “But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the Lord.”
Practice: This could have been the end of the story, but thankfully God is about to hold his chosen leader accountable for at least three commandments: he coveted another man’s wife, committed adultery, and conspiracy to commit murder. Sow a thought, you reap an action. Sow an action, you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a destiny! If you are an intentional follower of Christ who is playing with the sins of the flesh, you are living on borrowed time and putting yourself in great danger. God has a way of making the sins done in the darkness, be exposed to His light (Ephesians 5:11-13). It is never glamorous and seldom turns out well!
Pray: Thank you, Lord, for this stinging example in the life of King David. Help me to keep my thoughts and actions appropriate for a serving man of God.
This devotional challenge comes from The Heart of a Lion - King David of Israel and is available on Amazon.com
Practice: This could have been the end of the story, but thankfully God is about to hold his chosen leader accountable for at least three commandments: he coveted another man’s wife, committed adultery, and conspiracy to commit murder. Sow a thought, you reap an action. Sow an action, you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a destiny! If you are an intentional follower of Christ who is playing with the sins of the flesh, you are living on borrowed time and putting yourself in great danger. God has a way of making the sins done in the darkness, be exposed to His light (Ephesians 5:11-13). It is never glamorous and seldom turns out well!
Pray: Thank you, Lord, for this stinging example in the life of King David. Help me to keep my thoughts and actions appropriate for a serving man of God.
This devotional challenge comes from The Heart of a Lion - King David of Israel and is available on Amazon.com
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