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Spot the deliberate mistake (2)
'Words of the wise ... should be heard ...' Ecclesiastes 9:17
A story about a rich and powerful man made the headlines. Perhaps you read it? The man had a weakness for the opposite sex, and one day, after his afternoon nap, he strolled across the roof of his penthouse and stopping to perve on a bit of nude showering. He made up his mind there and then to have the woman no matter what the cost. One affair, one murder, one dead child later, the man came to his senses. His reputation, his public standing, his character all lay in tatters. His name? King David of Israel (2 Samuel 11).
Some mistakes have dire consequences. David allowed lust and passion to burn him up, completely disrespecting God's law, destroying Uriah (the husband of the woman David takes) and implicating Bathsheba (the bathing woman) in the process. It's as if he turns the part of his brain off that deals with thinking about two steps ahead. Surely he knows it will all come back to bite him, and yet he goes ahead with his big seduction routine anyway.
Aren't we a bit like that at times? OK, so maybe we're not committing a murder-adultery cocktail, but we can, in our own way, turn our brains off when it comes to thinking about consequences of our actions. Gossiping, sleeping around, taking drugs, whatever - it all starts when we flick the switch marked 'consequences' in our brains to 'off'
written by Bob Gass
'Words of the wise ... should be heard ...' Ecclesiastes 9:17
A story about a rich and powerful man made the headlines. Perhaps you read it? The man had a weakness for the opposite sex, and one day, after his afternoon nap, he strolled across the roof of his penthouse and stopping to perve on a bit of nude showering. He made up his mind there and then to have the woman no matter what the cost. One affair, one murder, one dead child later, the man came to his senses. His reputation, his public standing, his character all lay in tatters. His name? King David of Israel (2 Samuel 11).
Some mistakes have dire consequences. David allowed lust and passion to burn him up, completely disrespecting God's law, destroying Uriah (the husband of the woman David takes) and implicating Bathsheba (the bathing woman) in the process. It's as if he turns the part of his brain off that deals with thinking about two steps ahead. Surely he knows it will all come back to bite him, and yet he goes ahead with his big seduction routine anyway.
Aren't we a bit like that at times? OK, so maybe we're not committing a murder-adultery cocktail, but we can, in our own way, turn our brains off when it comes to thinking about consequences of our actions. Gossiping, sleeping around, taking drugs, whatever - it all starts when we flick the switch marked 'consequences' in our brains to 'off'
written by Bob Gass
