How great is our God! He brings victory out of defeat; and even from the swamp of our sins, He mines for gold. One of the most remarkable verses in the Bible is one we usually pass over in the genealogy of Jesus Christ: "David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah" (Matthew 1:6).
That’s referring to Bathsheba, the woman with whom King David committed adultery and whose husband he arranged to have killed. It was the darkest episode of David’s life and a sin that blighted his record for all time. Yet God, in a remarkable twist of redemptive providence, allowed David and Bathsheba to become forbears in the lineage of the Messiah.
If there’s a dark stain on a page of your life, don’t live in perpetual despair. When Romans 8:28 says that all things work for the good of those who love Him, it includes all those mistakes, mis-steps, and sins that have been humbly confessed and placed under His blood.
