KING DAVID’S LOOK

King David’s Look

There is something about looking and our eyes. It can do you good all the days of your life or do you evil all the days of your life.

It is amazing that the lives  our biblical fathers lived are now testaments that we read today and make public assessments on. The more I consider this, the more I think about our lives and how centuries after we are gone, a generation will also arrive and access the life we also lived. This is so humbling.

On this note I want to say I respect King David and I am not writing this to disrespect him or make little his weakness.

It happened that on this very day, the king was strolling on the rooftop of his mansion. In fact, according to the records, that time he should have been at war. 2 Sam11:1

We cannot exactly tell why he couldn’t go. Then this happened!

While strolling on his roof top, he saw a woman bathing. Which kind of Looking is this?

Could it be that he actually took time to admire to the point of lust? Could it be that he stopped and really took time to look until he realized what he was looking at?

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King David’s Look

Whatever it was, there was a looking that translated into seeing the nakedness of someone’s wife. This singular act brought untold trouble to the powerful King of Israel, a man after God’s own heart.

When we read this story, there is the tendency to start running our mouth on  King David. As humans we fail to turn the gun to ourselves and speak truth to our own selves.

At best, we are good at advising people about how they should live their lives and  quick at correcting  people without correcting ourselves.

So, what are the lessons for our own consumption?

Let’s be careful where we take our eyes. It can do us good or evil. Our eyes are windows to our lives. Whatever the eye is always seeing the heart will start liking.

King David is gone. We are the ones remaining in this evil world.

Another lesson we have to take to heart is to be at where God intends us to be. Difficult as it may look, that is the way out. Nature does not like emptiness.

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Not only that, we have to be at our place of responsibility. Read that phrase again…at the time that Kings go for WAR!!

In conclusions, know that the weaknesses of our fathers are not things to just talk about but they are things to learn from.

God help us all in Jesus’ name.

Amen

For the love of God, society and young people.

Blessings

Rev. Seth Agbeli Kunkpe

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