He Is Not Like Us
There is something remarkable about the story of David and Bathsheba. We know the crime. But the interesting part is not the sin — it is what follows it. David wept when the child born of that union fell sick. He fasted and prayed with his face to the ground, pleading with God, until the day the child died. (2 Samuel 12:16-18) Now, from a religious standpoint, if we were writing the next chapter, we know exactly what it would look like. Cast away the woman of adultery. Separate yourself from the source of the sin. Pursue ritual purification, make the offerings, demonstrate repentance through distance. But He is not like us. God did not merely permit the marriage to continue — He blessed it. And from that union came Solomon. (2 Samuel 12:24-25) Of all David's children, it was the son of Bathsheba that God chose. The one whose very existence traced back to adultery and murder. And when you follow that lineage all the way forward, Solomon sits in the direct ancestral line of Jes...