Slippery Slope

The Digression
8 Saul was very angry
9 And from that time on Saul kept a jealous eye on David.
10 The next day an evil spirit from God came forcefully upon Saul….he raved in the midst of the house (feigning prophecy)
11 Saul hurled the spear at David
12 Saul was afraid of David

You know, to see Saul’s digression is very real. In lesser forms it take place and manifests itself as jealousy or envy….but those too can become footholds for Satan. Satan fooled Saul into believing that the enemy wasn’t the Philistines, his own sin or Satan himself….but that the enemy was David.

I had a friend…who I saw this same pattern in. It’s very sad when there is someone who loves the Lord, who is in sin…and they no longer see their sin as the issue. They then will deflect the real issue (the sin) and now the source of all their pain and problems is someone else.

My friend no longer sought counsel from the one’s who loved him the most, he no longer prayed about his own areas of weakness and lastly he rejected the prayers of those who offered them.

I go back to Alex’s (Barney Fife’s) ‘nip it in the bud’ theology. You go back to the root, and there was a point in time, a decision that was made, that sin took hold. And much like a weed…you can’t just run over it with a lawnmower. There are roots. You must root out the sin.

I think Satan loves the little sins….its where he is ignored, glossed over, rationalized. More times that not though….the little sins lead to bigger sin. If you are called out on a little sin….pride (a sin) rears its head and a lie (to cover the little sin).