We live in a world today where it is difficult to find people we can trust. How could we be so duped by someone so close to us? How could we look up to someone for so many years only to find out they were a fraud?
Or were they?
How could we be so naïve?
Or were we?
Maybe they weren’t fake.
Maybe we weren’t naïve.
Maybe sin is just that powerful.
Maybe they underestimated the power of sin. And maybe we overestimated their power apart from Christ.
Unfortunately, the New Testament does not give us an example of a spiritual leader who had a sexual moral failure, but the Old Testament does. The Bible says that King David was “a man after God’s own heart.”
Would you like God and the Bible to say that about you?
I would.
What does it mean to be a man after God’s own heart?
Being a person after God’s own heart means that your life is in harmony with God.
David had done just that.
But David eventually found himself drifting in a direction that was the opposite of God. The Bible says that at the time when kings go to war, David stayed home. Was he burned out? Was he prideful? Was he tired of fighting God’s battles and wanted to enjoy himself a little?
We don’t know. The Bible doesn’t say. But what we do know is, “it happened.”
David went out on his balcony, saw a very beautiful woman bathing, called for her, slept with her, and she became pregnant.
What was he to do now? He had a reputation to uphold. He called for her husband, but he turned out to be a better man than David. So David became desperate and sent him back with instructions that would eventually be fatal for Uriah.
And if this wasn’t bad enough, he hid it and lived with the secret until Nathan the prophet confronted him.
