2 Samuel 11:14,15
“In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. In it he wrote, ‘Put Uriah in the front line where fighting is the fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”
In the 2010 movie Inception, the wife of Di Caprio’s character Dom Cobb, jumped out of a window because she thought the reality she lives in was still a limbo and only death again can break her free. Since it was Dom who performed inception on her, he feels he’s the cause of her death. Since then, she manifested in all his deliberate dreams, a threat disrupting his missions, the guilt deep down his level five subconscious. Face to face with his dark shadow was a choice, either deceive himself to a happy ending, or forgive himself and live the painful truth. I wish the wobbles of his totem meant it fell over after the black screen. Otherwise, we can expect Inception 2.
David was himself in a multilayered state here. His one-night-stand with Bathsheba created a series of schemes that brought him deep down with his deceits. The first layer was Uriah’s pull out. It was a lame script for David to ask this guy how the soldiers were. Lamer to send a gift after him. No wonder Uriah did not buy his urging to go home. The second layer was a drinking session with Uriah. David was here the chemist concocting a sedative to stabilize the situation. Like many people, he thought alcohol could make people forget thus solving their problems. What David failed to remember was that it he who did the implant to his soldiers to keep themselves from women in time of war. The third level was desperate. Joab was sure wide eyed in disbelief receiving a note, handed by Uriah himself, for a sabotage. He who kept his hands from slaying the guilty Saul was now giving an order for the murder of one innocent, offended man. His totem was spinning at the end, and he doesn’t even care. Israel’s dream king was living a nightmare.
The dreamers in Inception have a system of ‘kicks’ for them to wake up to reality. God did provide kicks for David to surface back. He gave Uriah the code of war script to remind David of his responsibility, and twice did He cause Bathsheba’s husband to sleep at the palace entrance to refer that his army are camped in tents. God will not give up on us even at our darkest nights. His faithfulness is committed to show us the way back. Our guilt may lead us further down but God is still there to offer us a choice: a happy-ending-dream-state lie, or His forgiveness amidst the painful truth. I wish you'll choose to make your totem fall over after that black screen. Post-credits scene will surely show God running to welcome you home. Part 2 would be your story anew. Time to wake up now :>
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