BS was good last night. Was even better the week before. Somehow, i feel i need the wakeup call each week. Cecilia's bible study always (almost) brings me to reality... The reality that time is short... that it is not OK to sin (even if we can find all sorts of 'rational' reasoning to justify the stupid things we do), that we have much to get down on our knees to pray for, that false teaching is very real and a very serious problem that we need to guard ourselves against, that it is no one else's responsiblity to make sure that we know the Bible so that we do not wander away from the truth....

Need those reminders weekly, daily. Cos' sin is not usually one big step. It is many little ones that draw us, slowly but surely, away from the truth.

King David surely didn't know that he was going to end up jumping into bed with Bathsheba when he decided to rest while his army went to war one spring. In the first place, he wasn't supposed to stay home while his army fought without him. Perhaps walking around the roof of the castle was no harm, but did he have to gaze upon a naked woman when it was clearly none of his business? Obviously he had looked long enough before deciding she was beautiful. He could have let it stop there. A mistake. And walked away. But what did he do? He sent someone to find out about her. After finding out that she was the wife of another, he should have stopped there. But did he? He sent for her instead. Why send for another's wife?? He went on to send for Uriah, calling him back from the war, where he ought to be. He tried ways and means to cover up his mistake by getting Uriah to sleep with his wife, so that her pregnancy would be justified. But God did not allow it to be. Out of desperation, David got Uriah killed on the battlefield through a plan of his own conception. Uriah's wife became his.

Sin - it's the little ones that slowly draw us away...

For more of David's story, read here.