Daily Word - Tender Mercies
We all have ... and we all will ... fall into sin and transgress against
God. We are born into sin and have inherited this from the minute we
were born ... but the "sin we fall into" ... our transgressions ... is
by our own choice of disobedience ... allowing the love for our own
desires to outweigh our love for God.
When David sinned greatly against God in his desire for Bathsheba ... he
was rebuked by the prophet Nathan ... and repented immediately ... and
in his earnest cry to God's forgiveness ... wrote Psalm 51 as a record
of his repentance and for us to remember when we sin ... fall to our own
desires ... to reach out for God's tender mercies. Here are a few
verses from David's Psalm ... but we should read this Psalm in its
entirety each day ... and every time we transgress against our heavenly
Father ... and Christ our Lord.
Psalm 51: 1-5
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness: according to
the multitude of your tender mercies ... Wash me thoroughly from my
iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my
transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only,
have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight ... Behold, I was shaped
in iniquity
Psalm 51: 7-12
Purge me ... wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow ... Hide your face
from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean
heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from
your presence; and take not your holy spirit from me. Restore to me the
joy of your salvation; and uphold me with your free spirit.
Psalm 51: 17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart
We all have ... and we all will ... fall into sin and transgress against
God. We are born into sin and have inherited this from the minute we
were born ... but the "sin we fall into" ... our transgressions ... is
by our own choice of disobedience ... allowing the love for our own
desires to outweigh our love for God.
When David sinned greatly against God in his desire for Bathsheba ... he
was rebuked by the prophet Nathan ... and repented immediately ... and
in his earnest cry to God's forgiveness ... wrote Psalm 51 as a record
of his repentance and for us to remember when we sin ... fall to our own
desires ... to reach out for God's tender mercies. Here are a few
verses from David's Psalm ... but we should read this Psalm in its
entirety each day ... and every time we transgress against our heavenly
Father ... and Christ our Lord.
Psalm 51: 1-5
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness: according to
the multitude of your tender mercies ... Wash me thoroughly from my
iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my
transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only,
have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight ... Behold, I was shaped
in iniquity
Psalm 51: 7-12
Purge me ... wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow ... Hide your face
from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean
heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from
your presence; and take not your holy spirit from me. Restore to me the
joy of your salvation; and uphold me with your free spirit.
Psalm 51: 17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart
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