The great and pervasive brokenness that the Bible calls sin slowly turned King David from a pro-active and just person into someone who was passive, envious and willing to take things that didn't belong to him. Even the "man after God's own heart" wasn't immune from this moral decay—and neither are we.

Psalm 113.1-4; 1 John 1.5-10; Psalm 33.1-2, 5; 2 Samuel 11.1-5, 11.14-17, 12.1-7