Thoughts for another day

Oct. 29, 2013.

Today's verse: Ps. 51:11. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

When you enter the mind of a man who’s highly devoted to God, you’ll always find him thinking of what he should do next, to please His Majesty.  Another thing you’ll notice is that when he sins, he is perturbed and upset – not with anything external, but with himself because he allowed his soul to be tarnished.  To a man who’s close to God, a speck of sin, and that too committed wantonly, is a slur on God which he committed knowingly, amounting to rebellion against God and a great sin.

Yet, sin will always be a part of the nature of man, for he is born in sin and his flesh craves to sin.  Even, if you know God well, it may not mean that you’ll not sin for remember, even a bad thought against someone is sin.  All sinful thoughts emanate from the heart and that’s the character a man possesses in himself and that is he.  Some people’s hearts may not be very dirty but there will be some dirt by which they may sin, perhaps what we term, small sins; but sin they do commit for as I told before, man is of sin and sin is always lurking near his door, and like Paul said, Rom. 7:19, ‘the evil which I would not, that I do.’  But after sinning, men of God don’t rest till they make peace with God and that’s also the case with David after he was told of his gross sin with Bathsheba.

I’m sure David realised the immensity of the wrong he committed against God and I can also imagine how he must have flung himself before God and pleaded with Him, tears all over and in those tears, with much trepidation, he must have cried out the words of Ps. 51.  Our Scripture today is an important part of the psalm where he cries to God, to not throw him out of His Presence and not to take His Holy Spirit from him.  My friend, in every offense that we commit against God, let us be aware that we must go before Him and seek His forgiveness and make up with Him, no matter if we know that we’re still going to commit the same sin again and again.  For He knows we’re weak and He will send us the Grace to rise above our sins and praise Him, but it also means that we keep God with us, all the time, even in our sinful nature.