Today's readings include King David's repentance for seducing Bathsheba
and killing her husband in the Old Testament and, in the New, the woman
who crashes the dinner Simon the
Pharisee is holding for Christ and washes His feet with her hair. They
are very different. David is powerful and caught out by Nathan in
private, the insignificant woman seeks Christ out in a humiliating and public way.
David is the king and the father of the line. (He will be strangely
rewarded; his child with Bathsheba will be Solomon.) The woman is
described as a "sinful woman in the city," among the Jews the lowest of the low.
The theme, of course, is forgiveness. And that forgiveness is available to all. More, as David's eventual success shows, the depth of your repentance can be shallow, even useful.
But there is another element: The aspirations of the woman. David wants God on his side as he develops his line; what does the woman want? What is she seeking? What within her draws a woman like this to The Great Attractor?
The theme, of course, is forgiveness. And that forgiveness is available to all. More, as David's eventual success shows, the depth of your repentance can be shallow, even useful.
But there is another element: The aspirations of the woman. David wants God on his side as he develops his line; what does the woman want? What is she seeking? What within her draws a woman like this to The Great Attractor?
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