Think about what it takes to say these words of David here in Psalm 51? It’s Humility in the highest regard. David’s realization of his sin, how it affected him, lead him to experience the effects of a severed relationship with God. It robbed him of joy, leaving him alone to fend for himself. This feeling of abandonment wasn’t worth the continuing of denying his sin. Without the Holy Spirit, he realized his purpose and being was stripped away. This discontentment with life is exactly what happens to us when we choose sinful behavior over proper behavior (obedience) with God. David was so distraught of the thought of being abandoned by God that he was willing to submit fully to God, that he asked God to make him willing to obey. Now that’s true HUMILITY. Do you value God’s presence like that?
7 Purify me from my sins, and I will be clean;wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.8 Oh, give me back my joy again;You have broken me–now let me rejoice.9 Don’t keep looking at my sins.Remove the stain of my guilt.10 Create in me a clean heart, O God.Renew a loyal spirit within me.11 Do not banish me from Your presence,and don’t take Your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,and make me willing to obey You.
Psalms 51:7-12
An Ordinary Man's Pursuit of the Extraordinary God of the Bible. These are daily insights from reading the Bible from cover to cover yearly. It is intended to point others to the Truth, and inspire people to pursue the God of the Bible individually.
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