Oh What Peace We Forfeit

497 - Today's Prime Time Devo comes from: 2Sa 11:6-8, “Then David sent to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7 When Uriah had come to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the war prospered. 8 And David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." So Uriah departed from the king's house, and a gift of food from the king followed him. ( 2 Sam 11:6-8) David has a plan to cover his sin with Bathsheba. If he can get her husband home from the battlefront under the guise of a field report, everyone will assume that Uriah and his wife would do what husbands and wives do, and it would be assumed by all, that the child Bathsheba was carrying was fathered by Uriah. Good plan right? This way no one knows about the adultery except Bathsheba, David, and maybe the messengers who brought Bathsheba to David in the first place. We're all home free right? But think it through. Suppose this plan works. Who will the child resemble, David or Uriah? What will be going through Bathsheba's mind every time she sees that child? What will be going through David's mind when he sees that child. How will David handle the natural tendency to connect with that child while he tends to his family and Bathsheba tends to her family? How much peace will David and Bathsheba have for the rest of their lives as they seek to keep their secret sin hidden? But that's just the beginning of their woes. Pr 28:13 says, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy. The word “prosper” means to push forward. Hidden, unconfessed sin keeps you in a spiritual rut and blocks the mercy of God! Is that a wise path to follow? To be sure our sins leave a trail of ramifications, but let it not be a trail that keeps us from the goodness of God. 1Jo 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.