It's Not a Big Deal!
“Why then have you despised the command
of the Lord by doing what I consider evil?”
2 Samuel 12:9
As Christians we have ways of preferring and describing our sin. When we sin/do wrong we often refer to that type of sin as; “I have backslidden”, “It is bad habit”, or “It’s a moment of weakness”.
Sometimes we just DON’T want to face up to what we've done at all! But to God a sin is a sin and that’s just what He calls it, all the times.
When David sinned by committing adultery with Uriah's wife, Bathsheba, God saw David's sin much differently than David did and God wouldn't overlook David's sin. Even though David had been obedient time after time, his sin was an insult to God…David knew better…he knew what God thought about adultery--and about murder--yet he chose to satisfy his own selfish purpose and obeyed to his appetite.
Yet still, rather than repenting immediately, David tried to cover it up by having Uriah killed (Romans 7:2-3----by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.)…I guess this is what David was doing. But God wouldn't overlook David's sin.
Perhaps he thought God would let him get away with this one…since he'd been faithful in so many other ways in the past.
That’s exactly what we tend to do as Christians; just because we obey the Lord our God in “some sins” we think it is acceptable to Him that we do that “other sin”. We sometimes excuse ourselves for disobeying God's Word…we assume God will just forgive us and treat us as if it never happened…we think our disobedience is not a BIG DEAL…we rationalize it by telling ourselves, "Hey, nobody’s perfect anyway!"
Maybe if we really understood how God looks at our sin, we would take His Word far more seriously…and if we realized that we insult God and His Word every time we sin, we would be more hesitant to do what we know is wrong.
Hebrews 10:26-27---- If we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.
How seriously do you take the sin in your lives?
Source: TSPOON
Read Ahead: 2 Samuel 12:1-10