It's unbelievable, but it's not, really. David had become an adulterer. He had taken Bathsheba for his own, and to avoid being found he had Bathsheba's husband killed. David thought he had gotten away from it. He even thought he had come out of it looking better and stronger than ever. It's unbelievable, that he could do that. But it's also not.

See, there's something that we as human beings are really good at doing. We are really good at pointing out other people's scandals. We are so perceptive to evil when it's in someone else. But when it comes to ourselves, we can't see it. We don't see sin in ourselves, do we? When we sin, we generally don't call it sin in ourselves. We'd prefer to call it a mistake, an error, a failure, or a lesson. We can see it everywhere in the world, except in ourselves.

That's why God sent David his pastor- Nathan. And Nathan told David a story- a story about himself, so that David could see the evil that he had covered up in his own heart. You can read this in 2 Samuel 11.

If you have a chance, I urge you to read this text ahead of Sunday. See David's reaction to his sin being revealed to him. And read Nathan's response. 

It's unbelievable. Truly unbelievable, that we have forgiveness of sins. From the sins that bother us, to the sins that we've hidden away so thoroughly that we can't even see them, we have forgiveness in Christ Jesus- through his death on the cross.

I want you to know this. You are forgiven.