Don’t do it

​​I am well aware that most of us love the story of noble Ruth and her fine gentleman, Boaz. But the part when Naomi tells the young widow to spend the night at Boaz’s feet makes me squirm. A lot of things can happen at night, things that have little to do with feet.

And here in Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus (1.5), I am reminded that Boaz’s mom was the Jerichoan prostitute, Rahab. That’s just another little tidbit to make the situation more interesting.

But no sex happens. We are all happy. It’s a nice story.

Next, we read that, “David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah.” We tend to assume there was not much of a relationship between David and Uriah—he’s obviously a nobody in the lineup. But, no, he is a somebody. Besides being David’s next door neighbor, he was one of David’s mighty men (as was Bathsheba’s dad). That means he was one of the faithful friends who lived in a cave with David and ran with him while Saul was pursuing the young giant-killer in the desert.

I really like David. But if you are going to blow it, don’t do it with one of your closest friend’s wife.

On second thought, don’t do it at all.