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11:1-15

In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.” So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent him to David. When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his house. David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked Uriah, “Haven’t you just ome from a military campaign? Why didn’t you go home?” Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my commander Joab and my lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!” Then David said to him, “Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home. In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”

King David, married with children, commits adultery with another man wife and schemes to have the husband of the woman killed on the battlefield. This is such a tragic event in the life of David who is
described in the Bible as a man after God’s own heart.

Entertaining a lustful desire can bring down even those who are closest to God. Many leaders in the Church have succumbed to the same temptation as David because they allowed temptation to give birth to sin. Sexual desire can have a fierce grip on our lives and left untamed we can be ruined by the intense need for gratification. If we entertain lustful desires we will be consumed and addicted by unholy and inappropriate desires. When this happens we must repent and where necessary, seek help. There are numerous programs available to assist Christian men and women in finding healing for sexual brokenness.

Over the years of our ministry, Brenda and I have been thankful for the many people who have found healing through the Living Waters programs. Living Waters Ministries provides help for Christians struggling with sexual and relational problems. The program is based on the biblical foundation of compassion, integrity, and dependence on God. These and other programs are an incredible gift to
anyone who is struggling or confronting sexual brokenness.

I encourage you not to struggle alone – reach out and find help so that you can pray as David did:

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right
spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your
salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. (Psalm 51)