FAITH CAPSULE: Avoid taking chances that can change your life for a worse experience.

2 Samuel 11

To be at the right place at the right time will always produce a positive result. In other words, being at the wrong place at the right time or the right place at the wrong time can be exceedingly destructive without the Word of God in place. To be at the wrong place at the wrong time is evidently the cheapest way to self-destruction. The right place at the right time is the only right with no iota of wrong having its way. King David, as greatly as he was used by God, got caught up in the right place at the wrong time. As a result, he failed to stand in the command of God. The Bible recorded, “It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle…” (2 Samuel 11:1) While David was suppose to be at the battlefield like other kings he, “…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.” (2 Samuel 11:2) King David’s standing at the right place at the wrong time caused an outstanding mark of pain on him that endured all the days of his life. To King David, it was the mark of adultery that had a great negative impact on his life journey. As an acclaimed believer, are you conscious of your present location? Avoid taking chances that can change your life for a worse experience. God cannot be hidden from and His presence will always locate you. As an acclaimed believer, where are you standing? Just as we pay attention to where we are standing giving attention to what we stand for is also important. What do you stand for? Where you are standing or what you are standing for can usher you into an unending journey of pain or an unending journey of great gains. In King David’s wrong standing, he entered into an indirect killing of Uriah when he ordered Uriah’s killing at the battlefield. King 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 creating a set up for the destruction of Uriah was an attempt to cover up his adultery that brought forth an unexpected seed. David’s adultery brought to life a child that he did not expect. King David’s standing was not acceptable to God because he violated the command of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s divine guidance through every walk of life.