MORNING HOUR
2 Samuel 11

As a result of your position, taking a rightful possession of what does not belong to you, will rightfully cost you at a rightful time. King David displaced himself from where he supposed to be and he paid the price at a rightful time. It is recorded in 2 Samuel 11:1, “It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.”(2 Samuel 11:1) A misplaced priority and a displaced position are equal to a disrupted life. At every time you are to be at the battlefront instead of being at home you have invited the battle to your home. David invited battle to his home and he also used all is rightful power to unrightfully take possession of Uriah’s wife. Having pregnant Uriah’s wife, he did all that was within the power that God has given him to terminate Uriah at the battlefront. David was supposed to be at the battlefront, but chose to be at home. David’s absence from the battlefront generated devises that are outside of God and it allowed the evil devises to take control. He committed adultery and extended it to murder instead of finding away out of adultery. Sin is a disease that will not stop itself when there is a failure in stopping it. Whatever wickedness you have engaged yourself into; it is always good to go back to God before the enemies use it for a ground to expand your sin. Whenever a believer becomes empty, the devil will not delay in taking over every vacuum in the life of such believer. In the morning hour, when David was to be in the presence of God he took time out because he was trying to kill Uriah, “In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die.”(2 Samuel 11:14-15) David had misplaced himself; he was not in the right location as a result he used his morning hour to plan evil against Uriah after taking his one and only wife. What are you doing with your morning hours? It is crucial to stay away from every form of evil devises that will take away your morning hours, and take them into committing sin and iniquities, that can take away God’s blessing. If you will study the story of David’s adultery, you will find out that by the grace of God, his sin could have been stopped but he went from adultery to murder. Thank God for His mercy that endures forever.

Prayer for today: Ask God to take over your morning hours for the glory of His name.