The battle between David and the Philistines continues. David is nearly killed in the fighting and so his men ask him to leave active duty. Which he does. Big mistake. Are they really doing David a favor by asking him not to fight? When we leave the fight behind, when the battles is no long raging around us and first and foremost in our mind, we're at our most vulnerable. Ask David. Without the battle reminding him of whose he is...his attention wanders (along with his eyes) and he sins with Bathsheba. Interesting to note, once he is convicted of his sin and repents, David will return to the fight.
I love David's psalm of repentance:
You don't delight n sacrifice, or I would bring it;
you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart,
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