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WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL: FORGIVENESS STILL ACCESSIBLE

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. Psalm 51:1-9

18 March, 2017

This prayer and confession of king David after the sin of adultery and murder is one of the most remarkable passages of scripture. The importance of this scripture would be lost except we put in context that this prayer was prayed during the era of the Law of Moses; when all what was required by the Law from him was simply a burnt offering. But this prayer reveals to us that David was aware in his own soul that the sacrifice of bulls and goats does not take away sin neither was the sprinkling of the blood of any animal enough to cleanse his conscience from guilt.
The inability of the Law to do away with sin was evidently revealed in the scripture above.

What was capable of taking away sin? It is evident in the first verse of the same chapter, mercies of the Lord and His love, and that was all David was asking of the Lord. He knew he could slaughter thousands of bulls, after all he is the king, but it wouldn’t do him any good except the Lord showed him mercy by his unfailing Love. He knew the power of a prayer that is offered in sincerity to God. If we will accept our wrong doing and simply ask the mercy of the Lord, because He loves us, He will forgive us. God is the one that cleanses and wash us from our sins nothing else will, David was somehow aware of this reality even under the Law.

It is not the will of God that we should not approach him after an error, it is the devil’s trick we remain in sin and shame. Have you committed a sin? Do you want it forgiven? Then Go before your God and offer prayers out of a sincere heart in confession and soberness and He’ll forgive you, cleanse your heart and give you peace in the innermost part of your heart. His love is greater than the sum of our sin and the blood of His son potent than the guilt in our hearts. His love and mercies shines radiantly upon us because He suffers loss if we perish in our sins, the destruction of a soul is a loss to the heavens. Please take the offer of His forgiveness and be completely delivered from guilt, sin and shame. You don’t have to carry it anymore, Jesus already did and thank God for that. Praise God for ever more.

One Week Reading Plan

TODAY                Acts 13:38-41
SUNDAY              Psalm 32:1-2
MONDAY            Colossians 1:12-14
TUESDAY            Psalm 38:16-18
WEDNESDAY     Hebrews 4:14-16
THURSDAY         Psalm 130:3-4
FRIDAY                Hebrews 8:11-13
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