1 Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.3 For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me.4 Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight––That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge. 8 Make me hear joy and gladness, That the bones You have broken may 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 steadfast spirit within me.11 Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. 13 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, The God of my salvation, And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.
How quickly we can become "no more!" How quickly do we see our sins and our disobedience and think, "It's over...I'm done. God wants no part of me anymore. I'm so far removed that I'm beyond saving." Maybe that's just me? Who knows. The fact is that almost instantly after I have committed some sort of sin against God I feel a guilt and a sense of dread that I have done somthing to forever break my communication with my Savior. But this is not what I'm called to do.
Guilt is not somthing the Lord puts onto us. Guilt is a feeling Satan uses to appeal to our humanity. The first things Adam and Eve felt when they disobeyed the Lord were embarassment and guilt. And it's so easy to feel like that. I mean, we disobeyed the Creator of the Universe, our Father, our Savior, the King of Kings. Anyone would look at that and think, "Wow, I messed up, big time! I don't deserve His forgiveness." And that is exactly true...which makes grace that much more beautiful!
Grace, according to Dictionary.com is mercy, clemency, pardon, or the freely given, unmerited favor and love of God. There is nothing we can do to earn it. There is nothing I can do to receive that grace of my own accord. But through Christ's sacrifice, we get that chance. We have the ability to trust Christ and his saving grace and power in our lives to make us right in God's eyes.
David understood this before Christ was even born. We have the chance to go before our Father and confess our sins and become clean FOREVER!!! No more does sin bind us; no longer are we sin's slaves. We are free, for now and forever!
O, Lord! What a beautiful thing you have done for me, for us! Remind me daily of repentance and the grace that you have given us! I will sing praises to you in the streets, from the mountaintops. Don't allow us to hold in this good news of salvation and mercy. Let us tell the world!!!!
