Have you ever had the feeling that you may never see light at the end of the tunnel? There’s always light at the end of the tunnel right? Let’s get real though, when is the end really the end? You have been facing issues that seem to have joined you in early adulthood. You thought you buried it all dead and now it seems as though what you thought you got rid of regrew and reattached itself to you. Like that annoying weed that keeps growing back.
There is nothing more frustrating than dealing with issues of the past. They seem to keep creeping up on us and taking us back to where we started. How hard we might have worked just to keep going to church and not losing it. How hard it must have been breaking off that addiction. After all the hard work. After heightening your level of self-control and now it’s back and living in your house; the house in which the Holy Spirit is supposed to dwell in.
Only the people that have felt this way can relate. It’s like you really want to be free, you want to be liberated, you want the chains to break off but you don’t know how to go about it. You don’t know the formula, but you keep trying anyway. How messed up life can get. How messed up can we become? The truth of the matter is that nobody needs saving any more than you do. Otherwise, why would you keep going to church? Why would you keep praying and studying the word of God? Why would you keep doing the right things?
Sometimes the boldest statement you’ll ever make is admitting that you have a sinful nature. I hope you are not shocked. David, the man God fell in love with, was one of the most honest men of God in the Bible. David was pretty cool. He fought lions and bears. He took down Goliath and slept with Bathsheba. Maybe I shouldn’t have added the Bathsheba story in that line, but whatever. It doesn’t change the fact that he did.
David loved God. I am convinced that David really loved God. He was passionate about God. He praised God. David had a deep understanding of God. He knew God. He felt the depth of God’s love, not in its entirety. I know Jesus dying for our sins is pretty massive but still, that’s not God’s love at its fullest.
The Bible says, nothing can separate us from the love of God. No height, no depth and no demons in hell could ever cause God to stop loving us at any moment. David had that kind of understanding of God’s love. He seemed to only have one solution to all of his problems.
If you read psalm 51 you see David on his knees, perhaps confronting his sins and being completely honest with God. The first thing he tells God is to have mercy upon him. Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins. Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin. – Psalm 51:1-2
This was after David had had a good time with Bathsheba. I know sometimes we read certain portions of the bible and think we could never do what some of the bible heroes did. We could never put ourselves in such compromising situations.
What makes David different is his honesty and his humility. He tells God he wants mercy. He knew that what he had done was wrong and shouldn’t have done it. David even knew that Bathsheba was married. He knew that she was joined to another man yet he went on and had his way with her. The bible says, he sent his people to enquire about this beautiful lady and yet he still had his way with her.
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