Our first reading for today has everything that would
make for a great soap opera: love, lust, deceit, intrigue and murder. In this
reading from the second book of Samuel we have the familiar story of King David
and his relationship with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah. King David allowed his
lust to overtake him and as a result had an adulterous relationship with her.
In his abuse of power, he first entered the relationship that was sinful. He
then gets her pregnant and then tries to hide his guilt from Uriah. He does
this by trying to get Uriah to have relations with her just so he could take
credit for the baby. When this doesn’t work, David arranges for Uriah to be
killed. Just beyond where today’s reading ends, David takes Bathsheba as his
wife, thus compounding his sin. With each event, David gets further and further
into the darkness of sin. He went from lust to murder. David will eventually
seek the forgiveness of God once he is made to see the sinfulness of what he
has done.
All of us, like
David, have sinned in same way, shape or form. We may not have sinned to the
extent that David did by committing adultery and by committing murder, but we
all have done things that we may be ashamed of that we are trying to hide from
God and from one another. We may have an old resentment towards a family member
or friends that we may hesitate to forgive. Or we may have hurt someone in
our family, and we hesitate in seeking forgiveness for the offense we have committed.
In whatever way we have sinned we need to be able to
turn to God and to seek His forgiveness and healing. God is always there to
forgive us. We can do this through the Sacrament of Confession where we can
start our healing with God, and eventually with those in our lives that we may
need to forgive or to seek their forgiveness.
“Holy Spirit give me a repentant heart. Help me to confess
my sin and seek reconciliation and healing.”
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