Nobody’s Perfect, but we can be Perfectly Cleansed by a Perfect Savior.
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. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
Psalm 51:4-5
David, the man after God’s own heart; he sinned. He went after the wife of another man and conceived a child with her.
Y’all, we are all sinners, right from our mothers wombs. We came into this world tarnished and bent on being selfish, but thankfully God still loves us and has mercy on us.
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.
Psalm 51:1
David sinned, and Nathan the Prophet made him aware of his sin. The first step to healing is awareness. It’s acknowledging that you’ve done wrong. And David went even further to say to God, “against you alone have I sinned”. He told God what he did hurt people, but more than that it hurt God.
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holt Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
Psalm 51:10-12
In more words than one, David asked God to forgive him and completely cleanse him. That’s the second step, forgiveness – a complete cleansing and healing of our sin. It’s a wiping away of the darkness we stepped into and filling us with light. David asked God for a fresh start, and God granted it.
Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.
Psalm 51:15
David promised, out of forgiveness, to praise God’s name and teach others to turn from their sins. For healing, that’s the third step, repentance. A turning from what we did and building a new future.
David had a direct connection with God, and God saw his heart and forgave him.
We have this opportunity as well, but ours comes through the lineage of David and the love of God. A combination. Fully man and fully God. It comes through Jesus, the Savior of the world, the Son of God. He was sent to the earth to die for us, putting our sins to death, being buried – wiping our sins away, and rising from death to life to give us eternal life, a fresh start.
When we sin, all we have to do is recognize our sin, ask God to forgive us, and turn from that sin. Then and only then will we feel healing from the sin because sin puts us in darkness and separates us from God. That hurts, that’s hard, but it doesn’t have to be that way. We have The Way – His Way, and He brought healing.
Don’t live in your sin and suffer with that weight on you. Release it to Jesus, release the weight of the burden of sin, let Jesus lighten the load by cleansing you and filling you with His Light.
Every morning, with every prayer, I thank God for his love for me, and I ask him to forgive me of my sins against him. This becomes a cleansing of my heart, making me new, and readying me to be in communion with him.
Ya’ll, NOBODY’s Perfect, but God can Perfectly Heal you and make you New.
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