Draw the Line
Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
I was reading Psalm 51 this morning; a powerful poem from David in his plea to God for forgiveness. His sins with Bathsheba and the murder that followed haunted him. The prophet Nathan had spoken to him a word from God in conviction. David pours out his heart to God in this Psalm begging for God’s grace.
My life before Christ haunts me. Satan loves to stir the memories of the great sins and the thousands of less ones. But regardless they are all sin. Satan wants to weaken my faith in fear and doubt, but God uses it to strengthen my faith in the assurance of Salvation; living now by God’s grace. I find myself resting on the words of Paul in 1 Timothy 1:15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. You must understand their is no sin that you have committed that a repentant heart before God will not be forgiven.
Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart– These, O God, You will not despise. The weight of sin you feel is God pressing in to draw you close to Him. The conviction you feel will either push you away, or pull you in through a humble repentant heart in a plea for forgiveness. Romans 6 5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
You can have a “do over” with your life. You can repent of the past sin and be forgiven of the future sin. It all can be a line in the sand when you go before God in the plea for His grace, through the blood of His Son. Is there any reason you would want to continue without taking the stick and drawing the line in the sand of your heart?
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