In the wake of David’s affair with Bathsheba, God was not content to let matters lie, and it fell to the prophet Nathan to be God’s living word to David.

A Horrendous Task

How about it? Would you want to have been Nathan? When he realized what it was that God wanted him to do, it must have inaugurated more than a few anxiety attacks. I know it would have for me. Not that kings should be given that kind of power, or in fact have that kind of power, or even on the inside, feel they have that kind of power. However we often attribute such power to them and act deferentially, whether that king is mother, father, boss, professor or whomever.

Still for most of us, talking to the king is a knee-knocking business unless we happen to be Barbara Walters. And it is even more knee-knocking when we have a…