GOD LOVES TO SHOW MERCY!
Psalm 51:7-12
7 Purge me with
hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall
be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and
gladness;
let the bones that
you have broken rejoice.
9 Hide your face from
my sins,
and blot out all my
iniquities.
10 Create in me
a clean heart, O God,
and renew a
right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away
from your presence,
and take not your
Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the
joy of your salvation,
and uphold me with a
willing spirit.
The weight of sin brings
guilt. Man, in his own strength, can only try to atone for it through rituals
and penance, but will never find relief. The only freedom is found in
confession to God and full trust in His forgiveness.
Even though man might try
to suppress his guilt through distraction and more sin, only God can restore
joy.
God finds much pleasure in
forgiving the repentant sinner. When God purifies us, there is no more need for
anything else. God’s work is complete. When God forgives there are no strings
attached.
David asks for forgiveness,
knowing that when God washes him, he will be pure. What a wonderful assurance
we have in knowing that we can be made pure again. When we recognize we have
offended God and go to Him for forgiveness, the weight is gone. David knows so
well the weight of unconfessed sin. His bones were crushed by the weight of
God’s hand.
If you are a believer, God
will not allow sin to remain in your life, without putting all the pressure necessary
to bring us back to Him. If you are holding on to some sin, this psalm is here
to remind you that there is so much relief in returning to God. There is no sin
that God will not forgive, there is no trespass that Christ did not die for to
provide full forgiveness.
There are consequences to
sin, there are scars, but there can also joy of knowing that one is right with
God. God desires to create in us a clean heart again. Our walk with Him will
continue unhindered!
Dear friend, our walk with
God begins by grace and continues by grace alone. I marvel, at times, when I
stop and realize that when God the Father sent His only begotten, precious Son
to die for us, He knew exactly every sin that we would ever commit. Every sin
offended His holiness and exposed our rebellious and ungrateful heart, in spite
of the cost, Christ died so you and I could have full forgiveness and peace
with God.
If we took more time to
meditate on these amazing truths, our love for Christ would increase, our
gratitude would be evident and our lives would be different. We must stop and
meditate on the grace of God.
No one who knows these
things can take his sin lightly. We must make no provision for sin. We must
mortify our sin. We must ask God to make us desire purity and we must strive
for it.
Sin will quickly tear away
our joy in the Lord. Our desire for the Word and for fellowship with other
believers will fade. If you are going through a season of apathy, you must
check your life. Have you allowed sin to blur your love for God? Have you
allowed you heart to wander in the wrong direction?
Our request to God should
be for Him to work on our will and our desires. We so easily attracted by sin.
The world is always enticing us with its flashing lights. Our fleshly desires
are ready to drive us to sin as soon as we let our guard down. We know which
sins entice us more easily, we must fight them, and we must close any pathways
to them.
Dear friends, I am sure
you know both the joy of fellowship with God and the darkness and weight of
sin. May the words of this psalm be both a deterrent and a pathway to a joyful
walk with your Savior.
If you have never
experienced the joy of forgiveness, ask God to lead you to Him through His Word.
Those who know the
richness of God’s grace and forgiveness are never the same again.
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