2 Samuel 11:14-17
14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15 In it he wrote, “Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”
16 So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were. 17 When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David’s army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.
2 Samuel 11:26-27
26 When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. 27 After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the LORD.
2 Samuel 12:8-14
8 I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. 9 Why did you despise the word of the LORD by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 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.’
11 “This is what the LORD says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity upon you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight. 12 You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’ ”
13 Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.”
Nathan replied, “The LORD has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. 14 But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the LORD show utter contempt, the son born to you will die.”
Related Text:
Romans 6:23
Numbers 32:23
2 Samuel 12:15-25
Proverbs 26:27
Matthew 1:1-6
Hebrews 13:4
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Just a Thought
There were times David could have stopped and confessed his sins before Uriah was killed and before David brought Bathsheba into his house as his new wife. The problem was, he was so consumed with and afraid of the consequences of his adultery, that his only focus was covering it all up.
We have choices, always. We have the power to make our own choices in life. To be obedient, or disobedient. To walk with God or not. To develop and strengthen our spiritual relationship with our savior or not. And when we screw up and sin, we also have a choice. We can confess and turn from our sin (no matter how difficult it may be to confess, it’s always a option), or we can try to hide it, cover it up on our own, pretend like nothing ever happened, and possibly sin more in our attempts to hide it.
When we’re so focused on hiding our sin from others, we tend to lose focus of God in our lives and our relationship with our savior. It eats us up inside. It turns us into someone we never thought we would be.
My prayer is that when we mess up and sin, we will come humbly before God and His throne of grace, confess our sins and accept His forgiveness, and learn from our mistakes so that we will be guarded from falling into the same sin trap over and over.
