Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what the lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more.
“‘Why did you despise the word of the lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.'”
Character Check In what area of life do I feel dissatisfied? Why?
In Business Terms Most adulterous situations are not primarily the result of a sexual problem.
I’ve observed that sexual problems are life problems. That is, when you really get down to the bottom of why something happened, it’s rarely just sexual dissatisfaction with a spouse or lustful desire for the other person. Almost every individual I’ve seen has been dealing with some form of impotence-not sexual impotence necessarily, but what we might call “life impotence.”
People are most vulnerable to sexual temptation, I’ve found, when they’re unable to achieve their goals, when they’re frustrated or they’re discouraged, when their dreams are being dashed. The sexual involvement grows out of feeling that their lives are out of control, that they’re personally impotent. Life is not affirming their value as people.
Then along comes a person who does affirm the hurting person’s value, who accepts him just as he is, who indicates she finds him very attractive.
—Jay Kesler
Something to Think About Contrary to popular opinion, sin is not what you want to do but can’t; it is what you should not do because it will hurt you—and hurt you bad. – Steve Brown
