Friday, June 22, 2007

King David's shipwreck

Many people have explained King David's affair with Bathsheba as a result of his idleness and being away from the battle.  It may be one of the contributing factors, but I think it is too simplistic to think this way.  He probably shipwrecked way before that...by marrying so many wives - six to be exact.  And God did specifically give instructions not to take many wives (Deut 17:14-17).  Is it any wonder he had no self control when it came to women?  Just because the kings of surrounding nations were polygamous didn't mean he could also follow suit, especially when God gave his warning.  And each time he took a new wife, the Holy Spirit probably prompted him not to do it.  But I guess he ignored the warnings....
Titanic's shipwreck was just like that....six warnings in the form of messages from other ships of ice ahead.  And all the messages either did not reach the captain or ignored totally by him and his crew.
So do we just get shipwrecked in our faith out of the blue?  The answer is obviously no.  Slowly but steadily we inch closer to the edge.  And God will send warnings in the form of promptings from the Holy Spirit or advice from people.
And I thought that it is also no surprise that Solomon took even more wives than his father, and his ended up turning away from God in the end.
Talk about not finishing strong....

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi Chee Wan, thanks for setting this blog up. Will try to get skype too.... in the meantime, will try to be diligent in making this amongst my favourite sites :)

Chee Wan said...

You're welcome...it's good to use technology to communicate and stay close. We're living in a crazy high tech society that only gets more alienated every day.