When we sin against God there is always some kind of cost

(Audio: Español)

RESUMEN: The story of King David's adultery with Bathsheba illustrates the importance of balancing holiness and grace. When we sin, our conscience, God, and Satan all see it, and there are consequences. God is a just Father and must discipline us when we offend Him, and Satan will accuse us before God. In order to maintain holiness, we must confess our sins and not give room to the devil. In the next meditation, we will explore how God balances grace and mercy in this situation.

One of the Old Testament passages that most helps me visualize and understand God's call to balance between holiness and grace is the passage where the life of King David is presented to us, in that sad episode where King David falls into adultery with Bathsheba, the wife of one of his most competent and honorable generals, Uriah.

And in that passage we know the story well, King David tempted in a very powerful way sees this beautiful woman from his roof bathing naked, he is filled with lust, he orders that they bring her home, he has an illicit relationship with her and this woman becomes pregnant and David trying to hide his sin and avoid a national scandal and especially that it is one of his most honorable generals tries to hide this and calls Uriah to his house in the field of war to go to his house and He goes to bed with his wife and that as in that way he tries to hide what happened, but Uriah, a man of honor, refuses to go home thinking that his men are going through so much work in the field of war and he does not sleep with his woman and then David goes to a terrible Machiavellian solution of having this honorable man assassinated to try to cover up the situation.