Day 2

Read: 2 Samuel 10-14

Work our: push ups and sit ups

So today's scripture was ripe with sexual sin. David's affair with Bathsheba was the most famous passage that I read today. David got caught being a peeping tom while another man's wife was sun bathing. Being king, he was able to ask her over and sleep with her. She became pregnant and David arranged for the murder of her husband. It is a pretty ugly episode for the "man after God's heart" who has been given the Holy Spirit.

The second story of sexual sin is much less famous, but in my opinion is far more interesting. David's son Amnon falls in love (or is it obsession) with his sister Tamar. He fakes sick in order to rape her. After he rapes her he instantly begins to hate her.

I found this shift from infatuation to hatred fascinating. This seems to be so true when it comes to sexual sin. You want something, you are fixated on something, you long for something, all you can think about is those things and then you have it...and hate replaces the fixation. Self-hate, hate for God, hate for the person and hate for the situation all fill the place where fixation was before.

I think that it is like that with every lust. You want that car. You read all the reviews. You dream about that car. Then you get it and it is awesome. Until it starts to pull to the right while you drive. Then the car is crap and you begin to hate it. I do this with cell phones. I have seen people do this with living rooms. And this passage reminds us that people do this people.

Out.