25th April 2021 – Repentance

A year had passed since David committed adultery with Bathsheba and plotted the murder of her husband. David deteriorated physically and emotionally. His gnawing conscience kept him restless and melancholy.

When David was confronted with his sin, his defenses crumbled and cried “I have sinned against God…”. After realizing the extent of his sin and its consequences, he wrote Psalm 51 a song of repentance and pleading for God’s mercy and forgiveness. When David writes, “Purge me with hyssop,” it means that he wants something gone. He wants his guilt taken away but he knows that such guilt goes hand in hand with sin. In order to be clean, you must be willing to be purged of your sin. Something has to die. Something has to be taken away. By definition, a purge involves some sort of loss.

Are you suffering the consequences of sin? Admit you’re wrong and ask God to cleanse your heart. He will show mercy and restore your joy if you turn to Him.

Repentance means hating sin enough to turn from it. God will help you as you turn from your sin and turn to Him.

A vibrant youth will shun any act of immorality, nothing so ravages a ministry as sexual impurity. This is an area of common avenue attack by Satan. An excellent youth must heed Paul’s admonishment to Timothy to “flee from youthful lusts” (2 Tim. 2:22).