Wrong place

It’s a very catchy phrase, descriptive too.

The wrong place at the wrong time.

Have you ever been there? Are you there now?

Most people know the Bible story of King David and his affair with Bathsheba. David lusts and then fulfills them. Bathsheba conceives a child, turning David’s fulfilled fantasy into a nightmare. David crafts a cover-up that includes murder. It gets really really ugly.

As the narrator starts the story, in 2 Samuel 11, he says this seemingly innocuous thing.

In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war . . . David remained in Jerusalem.

I think the narrator is saying, "David was in the wrong place at the wrong time." He should have been at war, but he was at home - wrong place at the wrong time.

When you start there, then things get worse. They certainly did for David.

It provides a powerful point about where we position ourselves. Are there certain places you need to stay away from, knowing the temptation there will be powerful?

I can think of a few for me. What about you?