How true and how deep is your repentance to God when you have confessed your sins to him and asked him for forgiveness? Are you like me? Sometimes I just mutter a prayer of confession and take for granted that God will forgive me and move on, often committing the same sin over and over again. Today I was struck deeply by the prayer that David prayed after the prophet Nathan exposed his adultery with Bathsheba.
Be blessed by this Scripture and let your heart truly repent, as David did, after you read this part of David’s prayer. Go back and read all of Psalm 51 to see his whole prayer.
Psalms 51:5-11 (TPT) - “Lord, I have been a sinner from birth, from the moment my mother conceived me. I know that you delight to set your truth deep in my spirit. So come into the hidden places of my heart and teach me wisdom. Purify my conscience! Make this leper clean again! Wash me in your love until I am pure in heart. Satisfy me in your sweetness, and my song of joy will return. The places within me you have crushed will rejoice in your healing touch. Hide my sins from your face; erase all my guilt by your saving grace. Create a new, clean heart within me. Fill me with pure thoughts and holy desires, ready to please you. May you never reject me! May you never take me from your sacred Spirit!”