2 Samuel 11:2-4 - Tempting, but NO!

As I have already mentioned in previous entry’s, we are all in a battle. We are in a battle between ourselves and with Satan. Its like fighting a war on 2 fronts and having the same number of troops to fight with! One of the biggest weapons Satan uses is Temptation. I think about the following section of the bible when I think about temptation –

2 Samuel 11:2-4.

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, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her.

Here we see (arguably) the greatest king to sit on the Jewish thrown being dropped right in it by his own lustful and impure thoughts. When we actually take a step back and look at the situation, we actually realise how bad it was for David to give into this.

We are all faced with temptation and all of us give into that temptation, if we didn’t we wouldn’t sin and we wouldn’t have to ask for God’s forgiveness. I for one struggle with a certain temptation (between me and God before you ask) and with his help and with his mercy and love I am overcoming Satan and being blessed by God for my strength.

When you are a Christian you are put squarely in the firing line of Satan, its easy for him to tempt people to do things when they do not know from right and wrong and give in so easily, his most fun prey is Christians. If he can get a Christian to fall, he is laughing his head off when they are wracked with guilt and sorrow. But this is also his stumbling block as the Christian prays for forgiveness and receives it, something that Satan will never experience!

When we know we are being tempted, a simple prayer asking for God to help and support you through the situation tends to help (helps me at least) and suddenly you catch sight of what you were about to do and you think “what am I doing?!?!”

We are all tempted, and we give into temptation, however through God’s love, grace and protection we can tackle these temptations head on and overcome them.

After all, we still know David as the greatest King and he was a wretched and as sinful as the next person. Imagine what God can do with you!

Walk by Faith, not by Sight.

Mikey.