What Makes Us Vulnerable (to sin)?

 2 Samuel 11-12; Psalms. 51; Matthew 23

“In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war…David remained in Jerusalem. One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,”

2 Samuel 11:1, 2

Why was David vulnerable to adultery that particular springtime?

Instead of leading his men in battle, David indulged his own appetites and comforts because he might have reasoned that he deserved them. After years of living a hard life with his band of warriors, hadn’t he deserved a life that was soft?

We are most vulnerable after our victories. Perhaps David had endured another argument with his first wife, Michal, who was the daughter of Saul. Perhaps his willful sin in pursuing Bathsheba was a way of ‘punishing’ Michal with whom he was unable to be intimate. Conflict makes us vulnerable to justify temptation in our lives as a way of getting even. In those moments, we forget that when we sin, we are grieving God, who is our source of life and has graciously given us all things.

Are we aware of what makes us vulnerable to sin, and will we surrender it to God?

“Lord Jesus, cleanse my heart from pride, self, and sin. Fill me with your joy and peace, for your glory.”