The story of King David and Bathsheba is currently one of my favorites, believe it or not. It is such a legend of the grace of God, actively at work in our lives. For a shepherd boy to be made a king in the first place was incredible. Then, he see’s a woman bathing.. Takes her into his chambers, she get’s pregnant, he murders her husband (along with many others) and then wed’s the beautiful Bathsheba. The price for adultery was death. The price for murder was death. And yet, neither of them die. Their first baby dies, but then they go on to have four more God-fearing sons. One of which becomes King Solomon, known as the wisest man to have ever lived.
A story of grace is one that turns a shepherd into an anointed king. And his son, the son of an adulteress into his successor. That is exactly what the grace of God desires to do, despite all of our faults and failures. He longs to take us, from the shepherd’s field, into the king’s court. No matter how many times I commit adultery in my relationship with the Lord, He still calls me royalty. He still places upon me a white robe. He calls me new. He calls me His love. And that.. Is grace, my friends.