Day 13 – Intimately
Engaged with God
Psalm 51:8, 12, 14
(NASB)
Make me to hear joy and
gladness,
Let the bones which You have
broken rejoice.
Restore to me the joy of Your
salvation
And sustain me with a willing
spirit.
Deliver me from
blood-guiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;
Then my tongue will joyfully
sing of Your righteousness.
In Psalm
51, David puts all his cards on the table, lays his heart completely open,
transparent to the Lord, within David’s own humanity. Not only did David commit
adultery with Bathsheba, but he conspired to have her husband, Uriah, murdered.
Even though he knew that the Lord was aware of his sin, he openly and humbly
confessed it in agreement with God’s view of things. David had eager
anticipation that God would bring him back into fellowship with Himself. David
needed to be restored in order to be fit for holy service, and for habitation
by the Spirit. Then he would have the capacity to joyfully praise God because
God and David would be intimately engaged once again.
Have you
committed an overt sin in the past or a failed to obey God completely, thus
hindering the joy of your journey? Confess it, and by the power of His Spirit,
turn back to the Lord. He will forgive you and cleanse you (1 John 1:9). He
will restore your joy of being in right relationship with Him and bearing fruit
for His glory.
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