We’re living in a time when some people prefer a scowering pad approach to history. In this approach, a notable historic person is scrubbed from history if they are found to have a flaw.
The Bible, on the other hand, doesn’t scour it’s heros from its pages for their flaws, and all of the Bible’s important figures had big flaws, except Jesus. Take David, for example. God shines a bright light on his sins, highlighting them and even letting their disastrous consequences play out in public while recording all that in detail. The David we read of in the Bible is not a children’s Sunday School version stripped of faults and made age-appropriate.
God’s approach to the sins of its heros is the opposite of the scouring pad; it’s the spotlight. It seems to me that shining a spotlight on the sins and struggles of Bible heros is what makes reading about them compelling.
Heart Language 
Yes, it is so encouraging to read that God can use us, even flawed and sinful as we are. I always feel insecure because I only see the flaws in myself and verses like Philippians 1:6 are a great relief to me: “Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
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