SITTING ON THE FENCE
'It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him...but David remained at Jerusalem. Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” Then David sent messengers, and took her...and he lay with her...and the woman conceived...' (II Sam.11:1-5 NKJV).
The story of Humpty Dumpty is not just a nursery rhyme but could also be a proverb. It says, 'Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king's horses and all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again!' The proverbial aspect may be traced in these questions, What made Humpty Dumpty sit on the fence? What happened to him on the fence? What resulted from his action or inaction? What were the consequences? In the bible, King David sat on the fence at a time when that wasn't expected of him. There was a call to battle, a call to defend the people under his rulership, time to perform his appointed commission, but the great man of war laid in bed, not for sickness nor lassitude, not due to exigencies of office, but from sheer desire for ease. A mighty warrior chose to become lackadaisical, perhaps just for this once he thought, but idleness attracts temptation by the flesh or by the devil. As the serpent did for Eve in the garden, he made David lust after the naked woman's beautiful form and David fell victim to double sins - he committed adultery with the wife and murdered her husband. Like Humpty Dumpty, King David fell shattered to the ground; his sin brought untold repercussions on him and his family. God visited the iniquity upon him and his blood line. A time came when David's son committed the same sin with one of David's wives under public glare what he committed in secret with another man's wife! As with Humpty Dumpty, David could not be consoled by all the king's men when God killed the child of adultery desspite David's mourning and fasting and crying to God for days unending.
Hear what the bible says in James 4:17, 'Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.' May we find the grace to resist the temptation of sitting on the fence at the time our delegated duty calls.
olusegunisaac2018@gmail.com
The story of Humpty Dumpty is not just a nursery rhyme but could also be a proverb. It says, 'Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king's horses and all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again!' The proverbial aspect may be traced in these questions, What made Humpty Dumpty sit on the fence? What happened to him on the fence? What resulted from his action or inaction? What were the consequences? In the bible, King David sat on the fence at a time when that wasn't expected of him. There was a call to battle, a call to defend the people under his rulership, time to perform his appointed commission, but the great man of war laid in bed, not for sickness nor lassitude, not due to exigencies of office, but from sheer desire for ease. A mighty warrior chose to become lackadaisical, perhaps just for this once he thought, but idleness attracts temptation by the flesh or by the devil. As the serpent did for Eve in the garden, he made David lust after the naked woman's beautiful form and David fell victim to double sins - he committed adultery with the wife and murdered her husband. Like Humpty Dumpty, King David fell shattered to the ground; his sin brought untold repercussions on him and his family. God visited the iniquity upon him and his blood line. A time came when David's son committed the same sin with one of David's wives under public glare what he committed in secret with another man's wife! As with Humpty Dumpty, David could not be consoled by all the king's men when God killed the child of adultery desspite David's mourning and fasting and crying to God for days unending.
Hear what the bible says in James 4:17, 'Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.' May we find the grace to resist the temptation of sitting on the fence at the time our delegated duty calls.
olusegunisaac2018@gmail.com
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