Have you seen God turn our gory into His Glory? 2 Samuel 10-14

2 Samuel 12:24-25 (NASBStr)

 Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her; and she gave birth to a son, and he named him Solomon. Now the Lord loved him and sent word through Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah for the Lord’s sake.

The key word in this verse might be the first one, "then."   The details proceeding this verse tell of the story of David and his original sin with Bathsheba.   David, instead of going to war, stayed back and observed Bathsheba, an officer's wife, who did go to war, taking a bath.   David, in a moment of weakness and lust, took Bathsheba and that resulted in an "unwanted" pregnancy.   Although the sin was evil the cover-up was worse.  David arranged that Uriah, Bathsheba's husband, would be killed in battle.   He then took Bathsheba to be his wife and to give birth to his son.   However, that child died!   "Then" our next verse is written as a chapter in the story.   Even though David is discovered by God and even though that discovery resulted in David's kingdom coming under attack and the child dying, God still provided a "then."   Out of the ashes of this bad, bad story, God raises up a young man who would not only eventually becomes a king in Israel but one who would be used by God to restore the reputation of Israel around the world and be used to compose the greatest collection of wisdom known to man.   David had shamed the nation, blasphemed God, and created a situation so dire there would seem as though know one would benefit.  Yet, out of the bad becomes good.   God turns the story around and the lives of the story around to create something great for His people and all believers everywhere.   God did this.  He always does this.   When the worst is done by His people He makes the best happen.   Paul outlines this all in Romans 8:28.   God gives us examples throughout the Scriptures of God turing the gory into HIs glory.