The King of all Boneheads!

One of my favorite people of the bible is King David.  He is one of the highly loved and known kings in biblical history.  He is the model of who many of us want to be.  He wrote the majority of Psalms, and is considered to be a man after God's own heart, but he was a very flawed man.  He was a man's man, Fighting lions, and giants as a child, Conquering nations as a man, and I love the fact, as a musician, that he was also a songwriter.

The problem is that many times when we put someone on a pedestal, we do one of two things.  We forget and look past every sin and shortcoming, or we crucify them at every mistake.  Just look at the latest celebrity to profess their faith, Christians and Non-christians alike begin to watch them with a fine tooth comb.  We have this idea that because they are in front of everyone, they should be "perfect," yet we don't require that in our own lives.  Usually when all is said and done, and the celebrity trips up, falls, or whatever it's the Christians as a whole who are less likely to forgive and forget.  I speak not as one passing judgement, but one that has done it my self.  At the same time, many times in politics if a celebrity lines up with our agenda we will ignore his ignorance because we voted for him.  This is how I viewed David.  He was a man after God's own heart.  Many times, growing up I celebrated his successes and ignored his failures.  I would play up David the Giant killer, but ignore David the adulterer.  The truth is sometimes, to quote the great theological TV theme, You take the good, you take the bad, you take em both and there you have the facts of life.  Granted it's not just the facts of life, it's actually what makes King David so great.  The life of David doesn't actually put David on a pedestal, it actually lifts God up.  David was an amazing man of God, yet he was an adulterer, a deceiver, a murderer, and even in 1 Kings 1:5-6 it shows he was a failure in many ways as a father.  and even in that God used him.  God used the good and the bad.  God used those failures to be lifted up.  He used those failures to show his love and If God can take the King of Boneheads and use him for his glory, he can take our good, bad, and ugly and make it amazing.