2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. 2 Samuel 11:2-4. 

Like Clarice being asked by Hannibal, “What is his nature? What does this man do that you seek?” Clarice answers, “He kills women.” Hannibal responds, “No, that is incidental… What needs does he serve by killing?” 

We read about the story of David and Bathsheeba and think that David needed to fulfill a sex drive but that was incidental since he already had several wives and concubines. Instead, his nature was to covet. He was King and had everything and yet like Saul there was a thirst for more. “Don’t your eyes seek out the things you want?” 

Adultery was the byproduct of lust which was the byproduct of a deeper corruption of David’s heart which was to have what did not belong to him. His eyes were trying to fill a heart that was not content. 

We too are corrupted by the lies that are in our heart. We forget that we have all we need in Christ. Our need is for truth not lies. Our need is for healing from brokenness. Our desire is only fully satisfied in God. When we find this may we sing these words with David in Psalm 84: 

Better is one day in your courts 

than a thousand elsewhere; 

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God 

than dwell in the tents of the wicked. 

For the LORD God is a sun and shield; 

the LORD bestows favor and honor; 

no good thing does he withhold 

from those whose walk is blameless. 

LORD Almighty, 

blessed is the one who trusts in you.

Pastor Aaron