The Naked Truth | David Did Evil in YAH’s Sight
Introduction: Shattering the Stained-Glass Myth Let’s stop making excuses for a tyrant’s behavior. We like to soften the blow of history by calling David’s actions a "mistake," a "lapse in judgment," or a "moral failure." But that is a cowardly whitewashing of the text. We have built a massive, comfortable industry around the romanticization of King David. We sing songs about his victories, recite his poetry in our darkest hours, and endlessly repeat the sanitized catchphrase: “A man after Elohim’s own heart.” We have turned a brutal, Bronze Age monarch into a stained-glass icon of relatable brokenness. But icons are dangerous because they hide the scars of reality. David’s heart was not after the heart of the Most High YAH. David’s heart had turned when he broke the commandment of YAH in Deuteronomy 17:17. He stopped seeking YAH and started seeking women for his lust and gratification. If you strip away the centuries of Sunday-school white-washing and ...