Two days ago, I saw this post on the page of a Facebook friend. The sentiments conveyed in this writing made an impression on me. I pray the words below will do the same for you.

     Much has been written about David’s affair with Bathsheba in 2 Samuel 11. My question, however, is why? David had just about everything a man could want. God even would have supplied him with more wives if David wished. So, why did David jeopardize his relationship with God, if not his livelihood, to have a brief tryst with another man’s wife?

     George Orwell described an incident that occurred during the Spanish Civil War. Orwell wrote from the front lines that he saw a man from the opposing Fascist forces jump out of the trench and run along the parapet in full view. He presumably was carrying a message to an officer. The man was wearing a pair of ill-fitting trousers, which he held up with one hand as he ran. Orwell wrote, “I refrained from shooting him…I had come here to shoot at ‘fascists,’ but a man who is holding up his trousers isn’t a ‘fascist,’ he is visibly a fellow-creature, similar to yourself, and you don’t feel like shooting him.”