Have you ever played jenga? If you have, you know the more pieces that you pull from their place and move to the top make the jenga tower more and more unstable. Eventually someone makes the move that brings the whole thing tumbling down. Now they may have made the move that brought the whole thing down, but it wasn’t just that move that caused it. No, every move made the entire thing weaker.
Most people have heard the phrase “a moment of weakness.” A moment of weakness is when you make a bad decision and do something that you wouldn’t normally do. I would like to propose the thought that they are not moments of weakness but rather patterns toward weakness. You see some may say that David had a moment of weakness with Bathsheba, but he actually had put himself in that position. He should have been in battle or tending to some duties of the king. Instead he seems to be relaxing, letting his guard down and then begins entertaining himself by looking at things he had no business looking at. Samson fell because he had a pattern of weakness. We too can let our guards down and begin to let things creep in. We begin to look at things that at first may seem innocent, but they distract us from our purpose. After we get distracted we start making little decisions here and there that spiral downward. Until finally we make a really bad decision and call it a moment of weakness. We must do as it says in 1 Peter 5:8 (KJV) Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
2 Peter 1:5-10 KJV 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: