Somewhere between killing a giant and allowing his men to go to war without him, David lost his desire to bow down and worship God.

It was a slow fade.

It didn’t happen overnight.

And it probably happened with a subtlety that couldn’t be noticed by anyone in human flesh.

And so it happened.

2 Samuel 11 2 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.

“And David sent someone to find out about her” … 

Finding out about a person in the wrong context is a recipe for disaster.  What we need to do is find out about God.  And David knew this.  In his quiet times watching over sheep he was slowly trained by God to take down a Philistine giant.  And he did.  In front of everyone, he stood with the head of a great warrior and sent evil packing.  The Hebrew army absolutely decimated the Philistines in reaction to the actions of one man.

But it slowly decayed to David shifting his worship to something else.

Himself.

And, as all of us find out when we truly look in the mirror, we are short of the ten trillion dollar payment that is necessary to even pay the lawyer’s retainer to defend us before the accuser of the brethren.

2 Samuel 12 1 The Lord sent Nathan to David……” 5 David burned with anger…”As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

David decayed to a place where EVEN DAVID wanted to bring justice to himself.

But isn’t that just it?

Romans 3 verse 23 reminds us that we are ALL GUILTY, that God could not find even one worthy of righteousness.  A colossal failure of all man that requires a Savior.

And so He came.

And He came to destroy all that we had built.

And He did.

So today … remind yourself of this.

Because without Jesus—we have NOTHING.

NOTHING.

And we would do well to remind ourselves of this—every day.

Because without it, we are a victorious king standing on a porch in the wrong place looking at something that we have no business putting our eyes on….

So RELIGHT YOUR FIRE.  Remember who you are in your BC days.

It’s an ugly picture.

RELIGHT YOUR FIRE

As I sat in reflection and worship today, I was reminded of this song.  To cry out to God, and to truly mean it, is our only connection to Him.  To be able to cry out to Jesus and to say “I can’t do this” is not only okay … it is necessary.  He is the only one that can help us.

RELIGHT YOUR FIRE

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J