Power Series Part 9: Power Of Lust

You don't have to be a genius to understand that there is power when lust is involved in your life. I just knew that I had to include this topic in my power series! Let's Dive In!

I'm sure I could get tons of statistics on the Internet of stories involving people who turned to murder as a result of someone's lust over
someone other than
their husband, boyfriend, wife, girlfriend, significant other..... Or, maybe the spouse is the one that committed the murder? It varies with everyone. To reiterate, I could do my own research, But in reality I don't need to. I don't need to becaus I have something in mind already. A story from my own loved ones. 

The incident I remember happened when I think I was 8 years old. Mind you, remember my memory is weird and my short-term memory is bad but my long-term memory is good.  I am  pretty sure the Lord put this incident in my mind so I can remember it for the writing. 

From what I can remember is this. My aunt that lived on the other side of the United States was having an affair. Somehow, her husband found out about it. He caught them red-handed doing the deceitful and devious act of  adultery .That led the husband to shoot his wife. Then he shot the lover. And, ended up shooting himself. All three parties are dead. They had many beautiful kids. Unfortunately, the youngest child was probably deeply scarred from his parents death. He committed suicide as well.

This also reminds me of the Bible story with David. Long story short. David saw Bathsheba in her birthday suit. She was bathing and David saw her outside of his window. Why this woman was bathing out in the public so anyone can see? I have no idea. All I know is that she did, and David saw her and eventually wanted to sleep with her.

This woman was married. David didn't care and he wanted her husband, Uriah killed. All, so he can have Bathsheba. So, that happened.

See what I mean when I say lust is powerful? My friends, please be careful with how you're utilizing lust. Friends, try really hard to only lust over your spouse, your significant other, the person you are currently with. The initial feeling of lust may even lead to murder.

2 Samuel 11 New International Version (NIV)

David and Bathsheba

11 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah.But David remained in Jerusalem.

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 Eliamand the wife of Uriahthe Hittite.” 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home.5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”

6 So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent him to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going.8 Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him.9 But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his house.

10 David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a military campaign? Why didn’t you go home?”

11 Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents,[a] and my commander Joab and my lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make loveto my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!”

12 Then David said to him, “Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13 At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home.

14 In the morning David wrote a letterto Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15 In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”

16 So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were.17 When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David’s army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.

18 Joab sent David a full account of the battle. 19 He instructed the messenger: “When you have finished giving the king this account of the battle,20 the king’s anger may flare up, and he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you know they would shoot arrows from the wall?21 Who killed Abimelek son of Jerub-Besheth[b]? Didn’t a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the wall,so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then say to him, ‘Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.’”

22 The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say.23 The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the open, but we drove them back to the entrance of the city gate. 24 Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.”

25 David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don’t let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.’ Say this to encourage Joab.”

26 When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.27 After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the Lord

TBC..................... 

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