The story of David is perhaps the most wonderful story in the entire Bible. David was, as the Scripture puts it, a man: “after God’s own heart”!

David had an unwavering faith that already showed with him growing up as a boy. There was his battle with Goliath, living in the court of King Saul at the risk to his life, the story of his friendship with Jonathan, and finally being made king, first over Judah for seven years and then over Israel and Judah together for thirty-three more years, a reign of forty years altogether.

However, there is a dark side to the story of David. There was a weakness in his life which resulted in the terrible moral fall of this man. He was an adulterer and murderer!

How could he, God’s own man, be guilty of these terrible things?