I had every intention of going along with a biblical heroine theme for a while and well to be honest. I haven’t been inspired by any biblical heroine's lately but that might be due to the fact that I’m reading in Isaiah and Ezra right now. So, I have chosen a literary Heroine.
Guinevere.
One doesn’t typically think of the adulterous wife of King Arthur as a Heroine. I know I didn’t. I absolutely despised her until just recently when I reread Tennyson Idylls of the King for my literature class.
Before I only looked on Guinevere as a woman who caused the downfall of a great nation, and was disloyal to her husband.
But after reading Tennyson's Guinevere I believe I have changed my mind.
I now see Guinevere as a woman who, she sinned but found forgiveness and worked her hardest to better the world.
I in no way would justify her sin. However, she is human. Many of us have never committed adultery, like her, but we have lusted. Which the lord says is just a sinful as adultery.
Tennyson's Guinevere is a sinful woman who could have wallowed in her sin, or killed her self after her sin was discovered. But she didn’t. She found forgiveness in the people she and wronged and from the Lord and moved on to become abbess doing good deeds and helping those in need.
The main thing I learn from Guinevere is that even though we sin, and it may seem like we have committed a devastating sin that we will never recover from. God is a God of Mercy who gives second chances to us all. He works well through dirty sinners.
So my comfort is that even though I may be a sinner, I can overcome my sin and further Gods cause and will.
