Keep Your SUDs in the Bucket (Lesson four)

This is lesson four of a five part series about experiencing forgiveness and restoration.

Noah, Abraham, Moses, Solomon and Peter all have something in common.

They all made seemingly unimportant decisions or SUDs, which ended up allowing sin into their lives. 

If you have been a Christian for any length of time, you probably can go ahead and add your name to the list, because you have not kept your SUD’s in the bucket.

2 Samuel 12:9-14 NASB

(9)  'Why have you despised the word of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

(10)  'Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'

(11)  "Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.

(12)  'Indeed you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and under the sun.'"

(13)  Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." And Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has taken away your sin; you shall not die.

(14)  "However, because by this deed you have given occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born to you shall surely die."

Wow!  This all started with David staying home instead of going to battle.  You talk about a seemingly unimportant decision (SUD) that leads to sin.  David took Bathsheba, had Uriah killed, and tried to cover everything up.  

Let’s take a look at verse 13.  God sent Nathan to expose what David had done in secret.  Confession is the only solution when sin comes into our lives.  Here we see that David confesses his sin and asks God for forgiveness.  

God says that if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive our sins.  This doesn’t mean that we can just plan and do things and then run to God.  David’s SUD was staying home when he should have been doing God’s work.  The result was horrible and we will see later that even though David’s sin was forgiven he would still suffer from the consequences of his SUDS.

Seemingly unimportant decisions or SUDs

Keep Your Suds in the Bucket