Psalm 51 ~ A Fresh Start and a Clean Heart
August 8, 2021
Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is always before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight;
so you are right in your verdict
and justified when you judge.
5 Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
6 Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
you taught me wisdom in that secret place.
7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins
and blot out all my iniquity.
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
so that sinners will turn back to you.
14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
you who are God my Savior,
and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
15 Open my lips, Lord,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
16 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;
you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
17 My sacrifice, O God, is[b] a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart
you, God, will not despise.
18 May it please you to prosper Zion,
to build up the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous,
in burnt offerings offered whole;
then bulls will be offered on your altar.
George Preuss says
Listening to your talk and I agree with most Of what you say. But in the beginning, David in 2 Sam 11:1 … “…when kings go forth to battle, David sent Joab.” He chose not to do what he knew as a king to do and that is go out with “his armies to battle.”
It begs a question: What do we as christians not do that the Lord has called us to do? Or that we are neglecting?
Perhaps you can ask the Lord and followup with a teaching from on what we are neglecting to do that the Father has called us to do or maybe we’re not even asking Him what we should be doing.
Unfortunately, (and I include myself here) …we just come to church, sit in a pew, listen to a good teaching, get ‘fat’ on knowledge of the Word of God and then just go about our week neglecting God.
We don’t honestly obey God’s voice in our lives…. Because…
A) We don’t know how to hear God
B) We hear God but are afraid;
C) Sitting in a church and hearing a message was all we know and therefore that’s all we’re going to do.
D) … etc, etc, etc
Please understand none of this is a rebuke of any kind. It is just my thoughts only. They all can be chaff and just blown away in the wind.