I slipped up in my walk this week. It was birthday week and I slipped up. I usually study everyday and I allowed the excitement from my Birthday to detour me from who I am really to thank for such an occasion. I feel embarrassed. My week, in which i anticipated would be wonderful turned out to be a reality check. God knows how to get you back on track!
It is way too easy to get side tracked. At least for me it is. I figure after really sitting back I have to make a effort to keep going with my routine. God has really blessed me over the past few months. He's really blessed since I started this blog, the last thing I wanna do is anything that equals "blessing blocking".
Many times we become like David and become comfortable in our position and take for granted the power God has given us.
2 Samuel 11:
14 -15 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. In the letter he wrote, "Put Uriah in the front lines where the fighting is the fiercest. Then pull back and leave him exposed so that he's sure to be killed."
16 -17 So Joab, holding the city under siege, put Uriah in a place where he knew there were fierce enemy fighters. When the city's defenders came out to fight Joab, some of David's soldiers were killed, including Uriah the Hittite.
18 -21 Joab sent David a full report on the battle. He instructed the messenger, "After you have given to the king a detailed report on the battle, if he flares in anger, say, 'And by the way, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.'"
22 -24 Joab's messenger arrived in Jerusalem and gave the king a full report. He said, "The enemy was too much for us. They advanced on us in the open field, and we pushed them back to the city gate. But then arrows came hot and heavy on us from the city wall, and eighteen of the king's soldiers died."
25 When the messenger completed his report of the battle, David got angry at Joab. He vented it on the messenger: "Why did you get so close to the city? Didn't you know you'd be attacked from the wall? Didn't you remember how Abimelech son of Jerub-Besheth got killed? Wasn't it a woman who dropped a millstone on him from the wall and crushed him at Thebez? Why did you go close to the wall!"
It is better to read the whole chapter but to give you a synopsis, David saw a woman name Bathseeba bathing and he called for her and slept with her. She end up pregnate. Her husband was a soldier so he had the soldier killed by sending him to battle on the front lines where the fighting was aggressive. When he found out Bathseeba's husband was dead, he let her morn and called for her. He married her and she had the baby. Of course God frowned on this.
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