47 Days of Justice 2024 - Day 6: The “slippery slope” is very steep.
- araratchurch
- Jun 4, 2024
- 2 min read
“He sent someone to find out who she was, and he was told, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” Then David sent messengers to get her; and when she came to the palace, he slept with her. She had just completed the purification rites after having her menstrual period. Then she returned home.”
2 Samuel 11:3-4 NLT
Have you ever been walking down a steep incline, when suddenly your pace is getting faster and faster, as you desperately try to keep from tumbling down? At that point, your mind shifts into overdrive, and you’re wondering what’s going to be broken when you hit bottom. Hitting the bottom is inevitable. Some injury is also inevitable. The only question: How bad is this going to hurt me?
Well—as you can gather from my description—I have been there, finding myself on a steeper incline than I had anticipated, no way to stop, nowhere to grab, trying to keep up with my feet, just wondering how I’m going to look when I get to the bottom. Believe me, it’s a pretty scary experience, bringing to mind a line in an old Oak Ridge Boys song, “If the long fall don’t get you, the sudden stop will.”
Now, remember that slippery slope we keep coming back to?
You know the one: You’re just going to “relax” a bit. You aren’t being watchful. Something grabs your attention; and you find yourself in fast motion going where you never thought you would go.
“There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.”
Proverbs 14:12 ESV
Yes, there is a way “that seems right;” but you see, that “seems” is the key. When you stop pursuing righteousness and look away from what is right, up jumps temptation, and now your judgment as to what “seems” right, is compromised.
King David should have stopped himself from going forward when told that Bathsheba belonged to another man. But, he has stepped out onto a slippery slope. There are no handrails. And, he is wearing skates….
Peace to you.
Jesus is coming! Get ready for Him!
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