Little Ewe Lamb

Little ewe lamb

2 Samuel 12: 1”Then the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him and said, "There were two men in one city, the one rich and the other poor.”

David had done atrocious and heinous crime of adultery and astutely planned murder of Uriah; however, for around 9 months, he seemed to be cool, trying to be normal with his wife that he hotly pursued and the new born baby. Many out there are living their life like this, as though in amnesia, oblivious to God and what they have done; nonetheless, the bubble would burst soon. Beware! That woman/man who people are chatting with clandestinely on facebook, secret exchange of text, emogis will all be exposed…..you know what, the Lord later told David ” because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.(2 Samuel 12:10) Never think God is snoring, never…He is watching you as your eyes rove lustfully and your thoughts raze like thunder with evil thoughts.

Do not covet: David did not go to Nathan the prophet, but God sent him, to wake him up from ‘coma’ and therefore Nathan told a story of a rich man and poor man who owned a little ewe lamb. The rich man had great many flocks and herds but the poor man had just one little ewe lamb that he loved and cherished like his own kid; however, when the rich man had a guest, he did not want to kill one of his own flock but coveted the poor man’s little lamb. How nauseating is the act of the wicked and the greedy! Friend, when you look at your neighbor’s car, salary, wife., husband, clothes and house with dropped jaws and wide eyes then you are not different from this rich man who had a greedy heart.

Be content: The Bible talks a lot about being content and satisfied, Jesus said: I am the Bread of life! (John 6:35) Apostle Paul said: Philippians 4: 11,12” I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. 12 I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.”

Greed / lust leads you to destruction: Greed or avarice is an insatiable hunger for something that you are hotly pursing, that eventually takes you to the path of total disaster. In this story the rich man kept his flock safe but killed the little ewe lamb and prepared feast for his friend; likewise, we would be ready to RISK anything in our life in order to satisfy that devilish hunger that sadly led David to sin with Bathsheba.

Misuse of power: What I saw in this story was not only all the above, but dirty, arrogant, overbearing and pompous attitude of David; this is totally from the enemy. Any kind of highhanded behavior, pride and smugness is from Lucifer. Danger! Actually if you see deeply, this ‘sin of adultery’ happened in his life when he was in his great season of blessings, when people are full of blessings, talents, skills, and bank balance then their heart becomes puffed up and their heart now wanders……………..

Listen, if you have enemies hounding you , then David would have been elsewhere not in the balcony, gazing at a bathing woman are you listening? This guy at this point of life was full of warriors and lot of horses and chariots and great victory too(check out the previous chapter, then you would know). Very rightly the Lord in the beginning warned how a king should be:

Deuteronomy 17: 15 you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses, ..16 "Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the LORD has said to you, 'You shall never again return that way.'

17 "He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.

18 "Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.

19 "It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes,

20 that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.