A Great Fall

The nation of Israel had never been so spiritually alive. God kept every promise to David, and the nation flourished. The nation was politically stable, unbelievably wealthy and militarily powerful, and at the peak of this unprecedented prosperity, David was on the precipice of spiritual disaster. How could this be? How could he have resisted so many temptations in dangerous, difficult days, and then yield at the height of success? The greatest enemy of our souls is the selfish pride at the core of our fallen natures. If we look deep enough, this is what we will find feeding the strong sinful cravings of our appetites, and this is why prosperity can be so spiritually dangerous. Adversity keeps us humbly desperate for God, but seasons of success can be our most perilous because we are so easily deceived into thinking more highly of ourselves than we ought to think. I pray this weekend you would join us as we learn to walk in humble desperation for God so that we might glorify Him in every season. — Pastor Chad