Life in the real world is rarely black and white. Everything outside of
Eden is colored with shades of grey. One of my favorite features of
the Bible is that God’s Word does not shrink back from depicting the
complexities of life in the real world. All the heroes of the faith get
their hands dirty. No one makes it through this life clean.
After a string of narratives depicting the faithfulness and
righteousness of Israel’s future king David, we come now to a
narrative that shows him in different light. A passage revealing that
even David can’t keep his hands clean in a fallen world. We may be
inspired by parts of his story, but we must not idolize him. He may be
good at times, but he certainly isn’t God. David is like us in that he’s a
sinner. He’s trying to navigate life in the real world, which isn’t easy.
