Why can’t I ever get away with anything?

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David sinned. He saw Bathsheba bathing on her roof top. This was not yet sin.

He continued to think of her. He even started searching out who she was. He was told that she was the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah. Still not yet sin.

He continued his thoughts about her until he convinced himself that he needed to see her again, in the flesh. He sent for her to be brought into his chamber. I don’t know the initial intention of David’s invitation or the response of Bathsheba, but I can read about the results of their meeting in the letter in David’s hands in 2 Samuel 11:6. The letter tells us a child was conceived which now threatens to expose David’s sin to the world.

This moment, this thought unrestrained, this act against better judgement, this willful sin, it carried a cost. For Bathsheba it was the lives of those she loved. For David it was an eternal mar on his integrity, the future of his family, and the life of his infant son.

We see this pattern of thoughts becoming sinful acts, described in James 1:14-15. 
14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

 

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David’s sin was to seek what was not his to have. Bathsheba was the wife of another, but David’s thoughts were set on her alone. He nursed his thoughts and fed his own desire.

When Bathsheba sends word of the child to David, how does he respond?

He immediately begins to cover his sin. He tries to solve his own problem. He sends for the husband, Uriah, straight from the battlefields and invites him home for a little R&R. Uriah was an honorable man, refusing to take pleasure in his wife and the comforts of home. What should have ended as a broken romance story between a beautiful girl and a King, instead ends in murder and tragedy, because of David’s lack of repentance when first confronted with his sin.

What should have David’s response been?

2 Corinthians 7:10 (NIV) shows us what leaves us with no regrets.
10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death

 

Do you have regrets? Do you have sorrow?

How are you responding to sin in your life? Trying to hide it will only cost you more. God loves you enough to expose you. God’s desire was that David not perish in his sin. God was so completely unwilling to lose fellowship with David over his sin that he upturned every one of his schemes so David could not hide. After murder and death, God confronted David once more.

This time David fell on his face and wept before God, crying out, “I have sinned against the Lord!”

David’s repentance restored him into fellowship with God. God’s forgiveness was not withheld from him. God’s love was constantly near David.

Does it seem like God is always wrecking your plans? Do you feel thwarted at every attempt to get away with even a little lie? It is because of His great love for you.

In 2 Peter 3:9 (NIV) we see just what is the intended hope of God’s love for us.
9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

 

God is calling all of us to a higher walk, to be pure and blameless before Him. Do not miss the prompting to repent when it comes. The chastening of God is for those that He loves.

He loves you too much to allow you to live for less than the life He has planned for you. How you respond to sin today could change everything.