...David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife... (Matthew 1:6)The thing that stopped me was that I stopped to consider the circumstances surrounding the marriage of David and Bathsheba, Uriah's wife. If you ever doubted that God could truly bring something good out of something bad this phrase in the genealogy of Jesus should help resolve that issue. Consider that our Lord Jesus birth is directly descended from a marriage that began in sin. David's lust for another man's wife caused him to commit adultery with her and to kill her husband so that she could be his. Our Messiah was born as a direct result of this union! Does this mean that if David hadn't sinned that Jesus wouldn't have been born? Well, no. God had planned to send His Son to earth from the time of the very first sin in the Garden of Eden (actually from WAY before that since God knows the future completely and is eternal Himself) and those plans would be carried out one way or another. It's just that He was able to turn this situation completely around. This sordid event in the life of David could have been the end for him. God could've started over with someone else...but He didn't.
I think maybe this is a picture for us...a foreshadowing, maybe...of how God can work in our lives.
The cross is certainly the ultimate example of how God can turn something horribly evil into something amazingly good...but it wasn't the first time He did it...and it won't be the last.
This doesn't by any means excuse our sin (or David's) but it should serve to give us hope to repent and move on...and allow God to work His grace into our lives. Who knows (besides God) what could happen?
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