The Bible contains a lot of information about David. Some of it is not very flattering. If we were to think of all the information like a picture, we would see that the blemishes in David’s life are not removed. The picture includes all the warts, blemishes and spots in David’s life without “touch-ups.” Baxendale wrote, “God lets us see some blemishes in His best servants that we may neither be too highly conceited by flesh and blood, nor too much dejected when we have sinned.” The truth is, as humans, we are looking for the Ideal Human, whether we know it or not. People try to find heroes in the athletic world or in the music world or in the church world. Heroes fall every day. It can be very discouraging. There was only one Ideal Human, the God-Man Jesus Christ. The rest of us are actual humans; broken, stumbling, failing and in need of grace. The good news is that Jesus Christ came to make us like Himself. We struggle to be what we know we could and should be. We struggle with others that disappoint us and fail to live up to their potential. This should point us to the One who came to put things back together again. We should fix our eyes on Him, not on ourselves or others but on the Author and Finisher of our faith. This would not only spare us some discouragement, but it would also help us remember where we are headed. Fix your eyes on Jesus.