FLEEING FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY
“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, 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.”” 2 Samuel 11:2-3 NIV
Unlike what tends to be interpreted when scripture speaks on sexual immorality, the Bible uses that as un umbrella term referring to ANY sexual activity that is done outside the bounds of marriage between one man and one woman.
This encompasses and is not limited to sex out of wedlock, extramarital sex, adultery, incest, prostitution, homosexual acts and actions performed with lustful intent. In our theme scripture, David’s stumbling did not begin with calling out for Bathsheba, but with looking at her and indulging the thoughts that led to call her. That is lustful intent.
In Job 31:1, Job had made a covenant with his eyes not to look at another woman (other than his wife) because he knew that led to many vices and carried no blessing from above. The lines have been grayed in our progressive and evidently all accepting society, but acceptability does not concur God’s blueprint.
Child of God, there is a reason scripture encourages us to “flee from sexual immorality”. It doesn’t suggest to resist it, because He knows we cannot. It does not say avoid it or don’t do it, but flee. Our Lord is not indifferent to our challenges, and His counsel is not merely good but best — as the creator of our spirits, souls and bodies. Praise Him!
Prayer: My Father, I thank you for this word. Give me both strength and humility to recognize my weaknesses and not put myself at its mercy. Strengthen my confidence to choose your path, even when it’s least travelled. Let your word discipline my affections singularly, that all my dealings will be pleasing to you, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
CI.
RELATED RESOURCES
• 1 Corinthians 6:18
• 2 Timothy 2:22
• Psalm 101:3
