2Samuel 11: 1-9…..Stupid, stupid David.

In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house. And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”
So David sent word to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David. When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going. Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king. 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.

Comment: David sent his men out on a skirmish probably to collect more animals, steal some grain etc. David meanwhile sat on the roof top of his beautiful home looking around. He had enough wives and concubines to settle all his sexual needs. But lust isn’t a sexual need but straight out sin! David had the power of a king and commanded her to join him. He knew that intercourse led not always but frequently to pregnancy. When David heard that she was pregnant he was thrown into a spin because this woman was wife of one of his army’s heroes! But Uriah’s heart was at the battlefront!

Prayer: Help me to abstain from sinning rather than assuming on Your Grace and Forgiveness.