BEHOLD
2 Samuel 11

Whatever you behold will either build you up or bring you down. If what you behold is of good it will build you up for good. However, if what you behold is of evil you are set for destruction. Behold actually means: to observe; look at; see. In most cases, whatever you observe might end up serving you the way you receive it. What you look at will end up in hooking you up to serve your desire. What you see will determine what will become of you. The function ability of beholding what goes around us hangs on to our eyes. Eyes and ears are the major route to our hearts where decisions for action take its place. The Bible records, “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) Ideally, King David was supposed to have been at war. Instead, he was at home walking on the roof 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.” (2 Samuel 11:2-3) Assuming that King David’s location at the wrong time played one of the major roles in his crime against Uriah, the issue of “behold” ushered him into his crime against Uriah. After beholding the wife of Uriah while she was bathing, he launched into inquiring about her. King David could have turned away from what he observed, what he saw and what he had looked unto. King David could not keep his heart under control and he launched deeper by sending his messenger for her. The Bible states, after sending for her, “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.’” (2 Samuel 11:4-5) David’s sin could not have gone deeper without him first beholding another man’s wife. Oftentimes what or who do you behold? King David went and behold on an avenue of sin. Once John the Baptist, while standing with two disciples, responded to the approach of Jesus, “…Behold the Lamb of God!” (John 1:36) The two disciples who beheld Jesus followed Jesus. Kind David beheld another man’s wife and went after her. Sin does not have respect for any man who avails himself to be taken over. The two disciples were instructed to behold the Lamb (Jesus) of God. You do the same and have life in Him.

Prayer for today: Many have fallen in the journey of life; many are falling because of what they behold. O Lord my God I ask for the grace of beholding what gives life and not what takes life.