Cover-Up

I am not a huge conspiracy theorist person. I am a fan of NCIS and shows like it because they always get their guy. There is often an elaborate scheme to hide the truth, which is what I think of when I think of cover-up.

King David sees Bathsheba taking a bath and instead of turning away, he lusts after her and has to have her. He has her sent to the palace and he sleeps with her. She turns up pregnant and the cover-up begins.  David sends for her husband and tries to get him to go home to be with his wife. Her husband is an honorable man and can’t stand the thoughts of his fellow soldiers sleeping in tents, so he wouldn’t go home. The cover-up takes a bad turn. Check this out…..

¹⁴ So the next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and gave it to Uriah to deliver.¹⁵ The letter instructed Joab, “Station Uriah on the front lines where the battle is fiercest. Then pull back so that he will be killed.” ¹⁶ So Joab assigned Uriah to a spot close to the city wall where he knew the enemy’s strongest men were fighting. ¹⁷ And when the enemy soldiers came out of the city to fight, Uriah the Hittite was killed along with several other Israelite soldiers. (2 Samuel 11:14-17 NLT)

David’s cover-up included murder and adultery. He is the leader of the country and I’m sure his sin was not kept a secret. It is horrible and the Lord was very displeased with David’s action.

There is no such thing as a cover-up before the Lord. I can’t hide my sin from Him. He sees everything. He even knows my thoughts. (That is a very sobering.) The Lord wants to help me with my thought life. The Lord wants to help me with my choices and activities. My thought life is where my sin begins.  I believe that confession and accountability can help keep my mind pure.  I can push back on the enemy immediately after he sets a trap.

Adultery is a sin against the mind and the body. It is a sin that has consequences for decades upon the lives of those involved.  Adultery is a tool of the enemy to bring about destruction of families, which I believe then weakens our culture overall.  What is done in secret, most often comes to light. Our excuses for sin are simply lies we tell ourselves to cover-up our shame. I need to own my sin. I need to profoundly repent. I need the Lord’s help with all my sin and shame and boy does He deliver!! When I came face to face with my sin and shame, I discovered my deep need for grace.  His grace drove me to my knees before Him. I am blown away by His relentless love for me.

Pressing On!

Dwayne