Everybody loves the story of David, and rightly so. He is perhaps the foremost Christ-type in the Old Testament. And who doesn’t enjoy reading how the shepherd boy, the runt of the litter, rose to the pinnacle of success, whipping up on that nasty Goliath on the way.
But the thing we all love most is that tender heart of his towards God. Oh, the sweetness and intimacy of some of his songs! II Samuel 7 records one of his prayers that will charm the hardest of hearts. And yet, a mere three chapters later, our hero is in bed, literally, with Bathsheba. How is that possible?
Folks, the same duplicity exists in all of us. Paul, in Ephesians 4, talks about an old man and a new man. They’re both there, in all of us. We are all only hours, perhaps minutes, away from a spiritual blowout. Don’t forget that.
