the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
2 Samuel 11:1-27
One would prefer to dwell on the victories of ch. 10 and to draw a veil of silence over what now follows. For David here suffers, from the enemy of our souls, the most cruel defeat of his career. Moreover this sad incident stands in the Word of God as a solemn warning for each one of us. The most devout believer possesses a corrupt heart, wide open to all the lusts of the flesh, and he must keep watch over the entrances to this wicked heart, particularly by way of his eyes. This tragic story shows us a king becoming a slave: a slave to his desires, enmeshed in the relentless grasp of sin. Instead of being at the battlefront with his troops, David is at ease in Jerusalem, then strolling idly on his palace balcony. Idleness, laziness, let us never forget, multiply opportunities of stumbling for the child of God. Vigilance is inevitably relaxed in inactivity, and the devil, who never misses an opportunity, knows how to press the advantage. Let us be careful to fill our time with profitable activity.
David takes Uriah’s wife and, to hide his sin, he commits a second sin in engineering, with Joab’s complicity, the death of one of his most noble and dedicated soldiers.
