In my decades of ministry in Latin America, I often noticed large, black water containers placed on the roof of each house so that the rainwater collected in them might warm their contents for use as bathwater.
Perhaps these black containers comprise the continuation of a habit that manifested itself even during David’s time. Lacking modern-day means of delivering porno, he seems, in this situation, to be replacing his warrior duties with an idleness that opened the door to glimpses of other men’s wives and daughters bathing naked in the moonlight in water warmed during the day.
After the disaster that his lust evoked, I believe he called this song of treachery into his remembrance, communed with his broken heart, and cried over his spirit thus tarnished by an ugly indolence that replaced his sense of duty with an obnoxious pursuit of pleasure. At least that is what Psalm 77:6 suggests to me.
Wow! Oh, Wow! This is one of the deepest, most revealing articles I have ever read on guilt of a normally innocent person. I cried as I read it. You are gifted beyond words.
Amen
In my decades of ministry in Latin America, I often noticed large, black water containers placed on the roof of each house so that the rainwater collected in them might warm their contents for use as bathwater.
Perhaps these black containers comprise the continuation of a habit that manifested itself even during David’s time. Lacking modern-day means of delivering porno, he seems, in this situation, to be replacing his warrior duties with an idleness that opened the door to glimpses of other men’s wives and daughters bathing naked in the moonlight in water warmed during the day.
After the disaster that his lust evoked, I believe he called this song of treachery into his remembrance, communed with his broken heart, and cried over his spirit thus tarnished by an ugly indolence that replaced his sense of duty with an obnoxious pursuit of pleasure. At least that is what Psalm 77:6 suggests to me.
Thanks for sharing, David!
Wow! Oh, Wow! This is one of the deepest, most revealing articles I have ever read on guilt of a normally innocent person. I cried as I read it. You are gifted beyond words.
Aw! Thank you so much for the compliment Katheryn, that’s the nicest thing anyone has said to me this year! HA!