Devotion
The Way Out
“So David sent someone to inquire about her, and he said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hethite?”
2 Samuel 11:3
David asks about her—and the answer he gets should have stopped everything.
The reply is full of off-ramps. She's somebody's daughter. She's somebody's wife. She belongs to Uriah. Every fact in that sentence was a door God was holding open for David to walk back through. Paul promises that "with the temptation God will also provide the way out" (1 Corinthians 10:13). The way out isn't always dramatic—often it's just the truth, spoken plainly, that we choose to ignore. David had the information that could have saved him, and he pressed forward anyway. The tragedy isn't that he had no way out; it's that he refused to take it.
Practice
God is faithful to provide a way out—but you have to be willing to take it. Where is God giving you an exit right now? A friend's hard question, a check in your spirit, a verse that keeps coming to mind, a door you know you should close. Don't explain it away. Today, identify the "way out" God has already provided in an area of temptation—and actually take it.
Prayer
Faithful God, thank You that You never leave me trapped. Open my eyes to the ways out You provide, and give me the humility to take them instead of pressing forward into sin. I trust that Your way is better than mine. Amen.