II Samuel 11
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On April 26, 1986, disaster struck. At 1:23 a.m. Reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. Over 300,000 people were evacuated. The land became unlivable as the radiation levels rocketed of the charts. The number of dead people still unaccounted for. All over the world, the news of the explosion was known. But the Russian people themselves had no idea of the tragedy that had occurred in their own country. It was a cover-up.
A long time ago, an ancient king went to the roof of his house and saw a young and beautiful woman bathing. Instead of turning away, he looked on, and burned with lust for the woman. He slept with her that night. But that forced him with a problem. The woman was already married. So he sent for the woman’s husband (who was fighting in a war at the time). He asked the husband to sleep with the wife. The husband refused, on the grounds that he could not allow himself a luxury that his fellow soldiers were not privy to. So the king sent him back to the front lines, and ordered that he be put at the head of the battle. The husband died then. All because of a cover-up.
King David had tried to cover up for his sin of lust, but ended up becoming a murdered instead. How many of us are trying to cover up for something we shouldn’t have done, and find ourselves caught in a vicious cycle of lying and deception? If we are, then giving it up to God now is the best course of action. Continuing the cycle only escalates the amount of lying and deceiving that we will do just to cover up for our sin. Who knows, it might even lead us to the same extreme that David went to. So break the cycle. Now is a good time to.
