Topic: The Peril Of Comfort
Text: Psalms 51:1-15

As children of God we will desire prosperity and physical comfort. However, we must not lose sight of the fact tat living in the realm of comfort can often be likened to living in a danger zone. If you are not careful, comfort may lure you to sleep. It is unfortunate that many who start out on a good note often fall by the wayside. It appears many wait for God’s blessings before they start showing their colour.

Let us take a serious look at David and Solomon. David started out well. God took him from being a shepherd boy and turned him into a king. This was a blessing. He had many enemies but God dealt with them. His father-in-law, King Saul, was also after him for year’s but God took control. David had peace, power, comfort and prosperity. At a time he was supposed to be enjoying God’s blessings, as he was strolling in his palace, he saw a woman taking her bath. David use his position as king to bring the woman into his palace. Before long, the woman became pregnant. He tried to let her husband to lie with her but this did not work. He then hatched a plan that got the man killed (II Samuel 11:1-7). God cursed David that the sword would never depart from his house. He blessing became a curse. Many, even when they hardly find enough money to feed and pay their bills, praise the Lord and seek after Him. However, when comfort came, they become slack. Vigils, prayer meetings and fasting then become strange to such people. It was comfort that pulled down David. Fortunately, he was wise enough to run back to God for forgiveness and mercy (Psalms 51:1-15). God restored him but the sword has never left the house of David.

We have another example in Solomon who became king after David. When he was young and God asked him what he wanted, Solomon asked for wisdom and understanding to lead his people correctly. This pleased God and he was given wealth, property, fame, long life and victory over his enemies, in addition to wisdom and understanding. Soon, Solomon prospered (II Chronicles 9:13 and 25-27) he began to marry wives. He got 300 wives and 700 concubines and these began to demand that he build temples for their gods, and he consented. God then decided to deal with him. When Solomon was about to die, he summarized his life by saying, vanity of vanities, all is vanity” (I Kings 17-11)

Memory Verse: I Kings 11:1 - “But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;”