Daily Devotional
The Consequence Of Unconquered Weakness
Text: Song of Solomon, 2:15 (NKJV)
“Catch us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes.”
Message
A weakness is a fault or disadvantage. It is the state or condition of being weak. It represents our bad side, our unpretentious side, our other side. Sadly, everyone has!
Our other side is the little things we test and say, it does not matter. We pay little or no attention to them. They are little foxes. They are those things we are quick to excuse, explain away, rationalize, turn out our eyes away from. They are things we say everybody does, why not me, etc. We often say the end justifies the means. But are these true or something waiting to destroy us?
Bad enough, everyone has his bad side. King David is a case study and pointer to the fact that anointing alone will not kill the bad side of us. Rather, it is our conscious duty to kill it that will.
David, from his childhood, was known to be a favorite child of God, someone who loved God deadly and feared him. He knew how to make God happy through inspirational songs of praise and worship. When King Saul disappointed God and was rejected by God from being king over Israel, God told Samuel not to mourn for Saul because He has found for Himself a man after His heart – David. The Spirit of God came upon him and began to do valiantly in the camp of Israel. He became famous in the strength of God and was King Saul successor.
But David had the other side of him that he did not take care of – it was his appetite for women! Let’s cute two examples.
When David was in the wilderness, he came in contact with the servants of Nabal, the husband of beautiful and respectful Abigail, who acted so foolishly for not taking care of David and his men who were kind to him. When he thought of revenge, Abigail intercepted, pacified him, and met their needs. Ten days later, God killed him (Nabal).
We read in 1 Samuel 25:38:39:
“Then it came about, after about ten days, that the LORD struck Nabal, and he died. So when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept His servant from evil For the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head.” And David sent and proposed to Abigail to take her as his wife.”
The question is: when did David become the next of kin to Nabal, that he was the one to marry the widow?
Also, in 2 Samuel 11:2-5, we read, “Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child…”
We thought it was normal and only two incidences until we read in 2 Samuel 12:7-12:
“Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. ‘I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more! ‘Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon. ‘Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from you for you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ “Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. ‘For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.'”
Apart from the curse on David and his ancestry, we equally read in 1 Chronicles 3:1-9 that in Hebron David has six sons from six wives and later he increases wives and concubines. In other words, David multiplied wives, which eventually became multiplied into him.
The truth is that the consequence will always follow the outcome of one’s actions, most especially the evil outcome.
David had an appetite for multiplying wives, yet because he did not see it as a problem, he couldn’t conquer it. It further led him to commit himself to other more serious errors.
God said David other side was done in the secret, but it shall be repaid to him in the public. This exactly became fulfilled in what Absalom did unto David’s ten concubines later before the men of Jerusalem. 2 Samuel 16:21-22 records:
“And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong. So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.”
Let us examine ourselves today. What is that weakness we are nurturing in our lives? They are each on their own, not to talk of being a combination, capable of destroying our testimony before God and men.
Cry to God today to help you conquer it before it conquers you.
Repent and strive to overcome your weaknesses before it destroys all you have worked for or gathered in your entire lifetime in your very eyes.
*PRAYER POINTS:*
i. O Lord, my God, help me to conquer my weakness today so as to be the perfect instrument in your hand in Jesus’ Name.
ii. O Lord, my God, I refused to be destroyed by my weaknesses in Jesus’ name.
iii. O Lord, my God, I preserve my testimony in you by the blood of Jesus Christ in Jesus’ Name.
iv O Lord my God, I receive grace and power to overcome all my sinful life called human weaknesses in Jesus’ Name.
Please share this message on all platforms and with your neighbors, and let’s join hands together in proclaiming the kingdom of God.
God bless you greatly as you do in Jesus’ Name.