Hey, this is Shelby and CJ, and we are walking you through scripture this year.

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That'll be a fun way for us to connect with our listeners. But CJ, today we're in Psalms 51 through

55 and we're about a third of the way through the book of Psalms, which I'm personally a little

sad about. I love going through the Psalms, one of my favorite parts of reading through the Bible

in a year. But what Psalm do we want to focus on today in our episode? So today we're going to

focus on Psalm 51. Yeah. And Psalm 51's a big one. If you look at the little title or the little

superscription in your Bible, Psalm 51 tells us that it's associated with the David and Bathsheba incident.

And if you don't remember that, that's in 2nd Samuel 11 and 12.

And it's where David sees Bathsheba bathing.

He takes her into his palace.

She becomes pregnant, but she's married.

David tries to cover up the pregnancy.

When he can't cover up the pregnancy, he ends up killing Bathsheba's husband. And it's a very brutal portion of scripture. It's a sad portion of scripture, but this Psalm reflects or gives

us some insight into David when that was happening and in the aftermath of that event.

Yeah, that's really helpful context going into this Psalm. So what exactly does this Psalm have

to say about that incident and how David was feeling in that moment? Yeah, so I think Psalm 51

shows us David's true repentance. So at the very beginning of the Psalm, it says,

this is David speaking to God. Be gracious to me, God, according to your faithful love,

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