Psalm 51
My heart has been drawn to this verse for many weeks now. I've read it countless times and prayed it for myself and all those with me in this pit of contrition. For those who don't know the story, here follows a mild retelling ( or the whole story is here ). King David got in trouble with a woman named Bathsheba. She belonged to someone else. His name was Uriah. David slept with Bathsheba and she became pregnant. David then tried to get Uriah to sleep with his wife and take the child under his care. Uriah refused to go home to his wife while his countrymen were at war. Plan B was to take Uriah out to a hotspot in the war and pull back, leaving him to be killed. This worked. Nathan the prophet came to David to tell him a story. It was the story of a poor man who had one sheep he loved very much. And also there was a rich man who had many sheep and much livestock. But the rich man wanted the other man's sheep so he took the one sheep from the poor man. The story in...