Such was the disease of Lady MacBeth from Shakespeare.
Macbeth was spurred on by his wife to murder King Duncan and seize the throne. After the murder, she took the blood and smeared it on the sleeping guards to implicate them in the murder. But the plot focuses on Lady Macbeth, walking in her sleep, night after night. Staring at her hands she pleads,
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One; two…Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!” Observing her pitiful plight, the doctor says, “This disease is beyond my practice.”
Adam and Eve experienced the question in the cool of the evening, "Where are you?" Neither Adam nor Eve could break free from the ensuing anguish of a choice made in wilful violation of God’s command.
When David's adultery with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband was brought to light, David likened it to the agony of a person with broken bones.
Pontius Pilate, with Jesus, trying to wash his hands of the guilt that he feared from having sent Jesus to the cross.
Pontius Pilate, with Jesus, trying to wash his hands of the guilt that he feared from having sent Jesus to the cross.
What can we do when we experience this kind of dis-ease and what will be our response?
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