The Snowball Effect

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 – 2 Samuel 11:1b-2
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Why did you despise the word of the LORD by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. – 2 Samuel 12:9
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How bad does it have to get before God gets your attention in your sin? How long will it take to realize you have to confess and repent, to begin the healing? When will this all end? Those are some of the questions I think about when reading the story of David and Bathsheba. David is such a model of how sin, unchecked, can have a deadly snowball effect. Evil progressed from laziness, to coveting with the eyes, to adultery, to cover-up, lying and deceit, and finally to murder. It’s disturbing to know how sin progressed in such a forceful and wicked way. If only David had a trusted confidant who could have nipped this digression in the bud. “David, why aren’t you with the soldiers? David, stop looking at that woman bathing over there.”

What a great prayer that Pastor Chris has for his kids, that if they do something wrong while at school, that they would get caught. That got a few chuckles in church, mine included, but later I realized that that is such a loving and right prayer. Expose the wrong acts of my beloved children (and me), Lord, that it may not progress into increased unresolved sin! Destroy the sin snowball at the top of the hill, God.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. – 1 John 1:9

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