2 Samuel 11:1 (NIV) In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. Now if David had gone out to war with the other king’s he wouldn’t have seen Bathsheda and committed adultery and murder. Continue to read 2 Samuel 11 if you don’t know the story.

How many of us like David are chosen, anointed and blessed, but we some how find ourselves idling and allowing the devil to make our brain his play ground of destruction. This is the reason are told to resist the devil because he attacks us in all sort of ways. This was not a temptation, it’s a calculating, manipulating choice. David had many wives, there’s no excuse for him to have desire Batsheda. This behavior of David goes to show a blessed peson who has it all, sometimes are never satisfied and become egotistic. Being ambitious doesn’t mean you have to use your drive to do bad. We must be conscious of our actions especially like David who is called “the man after God’s own heart” who will do everything God wants him to do(Acts 13:22) What happened to him? I am sure David knew the Ten commandments after all he’s a God fearing man that took down a giant not even the king and his army could by his faith in God. 1Samuel 26:1 When David had a chance to kill King Saul who wanted him dead, whom he’d been running and hiding, from giving up his family and home. David word to Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother who went down to Saul camp with him said, ” today God has delivered your enemy into your hands let me kill him” David replied, “who can lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed and be guiltless? The Lord forbid that I should lay hand on his anointed.” Pretty sure he knew the Lord also said,”you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.” David was to close to the Lord to not know what the Lord had expected of him.

“What was he thinking, and why was David mind turned from the Lord his God and righteousness? Was it that he’d won every victory there was nothing left for him to conquer or was he just bored with his life and his other wives?” It could very well be that there a curse on being a earthly king, look what happened to Saul and now David being is his successor. Maybe as scriptures declares, to whom much is given much is required and some people like David who are given the much, love the idea of the much, but can never bare the burden of the requirements. David lost sight of his relationship with the Lord, because of taking blessings for granted. His mind went on to lust instead of faith and his music that sooth his soul. Maybe like King Saul David need someone to play for him before his mind got lost. Music was the thing that kept him sane and in deep connection to God. David being a warrior was second nature to him, but his music defined him, especially in his relationship with the Lord. Could it be that a person can be affected by the actions of others towards them like Saul to David and now David to Uriah the husband of Bathsheda. This seems to be a psychological thing, cause we never hurt the ones who hurt us, some else always pays the price.

David had kept himself very busy in the beginning when he was attending the sheeps, fighting off any prey that tried to hurt them, running errands for his father like taking food to his brothers, playing the harp and writing sounds, playing music for the king to calm his spirit, fighting in the king’s army and running for his life from the king. David had to run and hide for his life after winning more wars than king Saul himself, whom appeared to love hate him. Saul had fallen short of the glory of the Lord by being disobedient; now his resentment of David and his victories in battles and the blessings of the Lord upon his life. All this had David mind preoccupied, and now at peace, don’t even have to lift a finger nor his presence needed was still victorious, not a care in the world everything was just going great. David is proof that you can never be too busy. Some people need to keep busy, but constructive and balance busy as to stay out of trouble.