It’s Thursday Night…..
You have a ton of stuff to do and even more on your mind! You are stressed! You know you should be studying for a midterm….and looking over financials for your morning meeting at work. But, your stressed!! Your class project meeting…that is going on right now…they can handle it on their own….you just need a minute.
You know you should be somewhere else. You momentarily consider going to bum a cigarette or a drink from the girl outside the student center…but you don’t smoke and well…you know that you don’t need to drink in season….and really…you just don’t want to talk to anyone….
You decide to take a walk…a long walk….down a few streets and then down sorority row. For whatever reason you feel like a young cooed just may be sitting outside and may look your way….maybe…
Halfway down that certain street…with the flowers blooming and immaculate landscaping….and the white columns….
you see her…
the world stops….time stands still…you don’t breathe….your eyes see the most beautiful…most captivating woman you have ever seen…….
………..in a toga…….at a pre-game….for a toga party….at a sorority house!
You immediately call your friend! His girlfriend is in that sorority! She would know who this is….she’s gotta know!! She tells you the girls name is Ashley! ASHLEY! “Hot Ashley” you call her! “Hot Ashley from Birmingham!“ You gotta meet “Hot Ashley from Birmingham”…..
Then your friend and his girlfriend drop the bomb of all bombs on you! “Hot Ashley from Birmingham” is engaged to one of your……..coworkers! Yeah, tough news to take! But even worse….the guy actually reports directly…TO YOU!!!!!!
AND THAT….MY UNFORTUNATE FRIEND…IS A PROBLEM!
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If you think the story above is a little early afternoon talkshow..ish! IT IS! Its also
BIBLICAL!
“Hot Ashley from Birmingham” is not a person for those of you who are already on facebook typing Ashley, Birmingham into the search field! She doesn’t exist….that I know of! I mean, there are beautiful, intelligent women from Birmingham on many campuses around the country…but that’s not what’s important here! (I did have a friend that was a Pi Phi my freshman year…but that’s the only coincidence….)
“Hot Ashley from Birmingham” can go by a different name! We will now be referring to “Hot Ashley from Birmingham” by the name………
“Bathsheba”
Are you ready for this story? Seriously though….grab glass of water!
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 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. (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.”
So, do you need a minute to digest all of that! I’ll give you a minute to get up and get a drink of water!
Ok…you good now!
David! David! David! I just don’t know what to say about him right here other than…WOW!
Let me give you the post-game breakdown for all of you that think this was a harmless hookup!
David’s Pathway to Destruction:
- David should have been somewhere else! He should have been with his army at war!
- He had given himself “Idle Time”!
- He went for a walk “on the roof of the King’s Palace”!
- “His eyes saw a beautiful woman bathing!” What was he looking for anyway?
- He “sent and inquired about the woman”….in today’s culture, “Hey, isn’t that Bathsheba!?!? She is fine! Facebook her and see if she’s single….!”
- The messengers took her….SHE CAME TO HIM….AND THEY WATCHED NETFLIX FOR ABOUT 15 MINUTES!
Story is over, right!? Well, NO! Not by a long shot!
Thing is…a few weeks later….She comes to David and…..
Maury tells David that he is the Daddy…………KING DAVID FREAKS OUT !
Ok…so that wasn’t King David…and that DEFINITELY wasn’t Bathsheba!!!!
Our man David….”A man after God’s own heart”…is well on his way to some bad decisions!…….
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.
David…David…David! David is now hoping to “cover up” his slip-up! Uriah, a man of strict integrity, who only wants to honor his God, his men, and King David’s army…. says, “NO!”….little does he EVER know….
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 love to 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.
Man ..oh…Man! David then thinks he can get Uriah drunk….get him to go home to his wife..and cover up his sin. But once again….INTEGRITY WINS! Uriah says, “NO!”
14 In the morning David wrote a letter to 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.
Once David found that he could not Coerce Uriah…David gave Uriah his own death sentence to carry to the executioner……simply EVIL!!!
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.”
So, about that walk you took in the middle of the night to clear your head!
You remember? You were supposed to be somewhere else…doing something else…with people who expected you there!?
Several years ago at a coaching clinic in Tuscaloosa, Josh Niblett gave a presentation on his coaching philosophy and the Hoover High School Program. He started the presentation off with the following quote….which I will leave as our weekly meditation…
“We expect this out of everyone in our program at Hoover High School!
Be Where you are supposed to be….
When you are supposed to be there…..
With Who you are supposed to be with….
Doing What you are supposed to be doing…
THE RIGHT WAY….The Way it is Supposed to be done!”
So, anyone want to Netflix and Chill after that….?
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