Dietrich Bonhoeffer made the observation that when lust takes control, “At this moment God … loses all reality.… Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God.”5 What a world of wisdom there is in this statement! When we are in the grip of lust, the reality of God fades. The longer King David leered, the less real God became to him. Not only was his awareness of God diminished, but David lost awareness of who he himself was — his holy call, his frailty, and the certain