Preaching And Reading The Old Testament Lessons
In all likelihood, our text for the morning comes to us from an eye--witness in the court of King David of Judah, and he is a master story--teller. He himself interjects no judgments into his biography. He simply tells what happened. But by the way he gives his account, the characters of both David and Uriah are vividly portrayed to us. Our biographer tells the truth, even about a king, which was an unprecedented procedure in the ancient Near East. But it is the truth which reveals most deeply.
