9/20/2010 8:16:16 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The covering
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2Sam. 11:5-27
Message of the verses: “ The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, ‘I am pregnant.’
“ 6 ¶ Then David sent to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked concerning the welfare of Joab and the people and the state of the war. 8 Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and a present from the king was sent out after him. 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. 10 Now when they told David, saying, "Uriah did not go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?" 11 Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? By your life and the life of your soul, I will not do this thing." 12 Then David said to Uriah, "Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you go." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13 Now David called him, and he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with his lord’s servants, but he did not go down to his house.
“14 ¶ Now in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 He had written in the letter, saying, "Place Uriah in the front line of the fiercest battle and withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and die." 16 So it was as Joab kept watch on the city, that he put Uriah at the place where he knew there were valiant men. 17 The men of the city went out and fought against Joab, and some of the people among David’s servants fell; and Uriah the Hittite also died. 18 Then Joab sent and reported to David all the events of the war. 19 He charged the messenger, saying, "When you have finished telling all the events of the war to the king, 20 and if it happens that the king’s wrath rises and he says to you, ’Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? 21 ’Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’-then you shall say, ’Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’" 22 So the messenger departed and came and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to tell. 23 The messenger said to David, "The men prevailed against us and came out against us in the field, but we pressed them as far as the entrance of the gate. 24 "Moreover, the archers shot at your servants from the wall; so some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead." 25 Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall say to Joab, ’Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle against the city stronger and overthrow it’; and so encourage him." 26 Now when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. 27 When the time of mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house and she became his wife; then she bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.”
This is one of the saddest stories in all the Scripture from the standpoint of Uriah, for he was the innocent one in all of this, the one that was the good soldier, the one that was the good husband, and his only crime was to marry a beautiful woman and live near the palace of the king. Uriah would carry his own death sentence unknowingly to his commander and die for king, country, and his Lord, but actually would be murdered by his king.
David was breaking many of the Ten Commandments starting with the hardest one to keep, for the commandment concerning coveting was a commandment of the mind and that made it the easiest to break. David coveted his neighbor’s wife, committed adultery with his neighbor’s wife, then he bore false witness against his neighbor, and then killed his neighbor to cover up the breaking of these other broken commandments.
I have highlighted the last sentence in verse 27, “But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.” It will be the Lord who has the last word on all of this, for the only way that David would be able to live after breaking these commandments is by God’s grace for there was no sacrifice to offer for the things that David had done.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Humanely speaking this was a series of smart moves that David did, yet humanely is usually all together wrong for it comes from the flesh, the old nature and that is the wrong nature to follow. The things that I can learn from all of this is that it is best to take care of temptations in the mind by taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, and this means that I must have the mind of Christ, and that means that I must be in a church that teaches the Word of God so that I can learn the Word of God and then this will give me the mind of Christ so that when I am tempted I can take the temptation captive to the obedience of Christ. As stated before the next place that is easiest to take care of a problem like this is when I sin in my mind is to confess it at that time and not dwell any longer on it. The rest will go downhill very fast if not taken care of in the first two steps like it did for David.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
1. Take every though captive to the obedience of Christ.
2. Give myself to the Lord for worship and service.
3. Put on the spiritual armor in order to be protected in the battle that is all around me.
4. Continue to learn contentment.
5. Love my wife like Christ loves His Church.
6. Seek the Lord to direct my path today.
7. Trust that the Holy Spirit will search my heart for unconfessed sin in order to have sweet fellowship with my Lord.
9/20/2010 9:01:30 AM
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