The
Forgiving Arms of God
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Title:
The Forgiving Arms of God
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Date: 4/3/2003
Keyword:
“forgiveness”
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Passage:
Psalm 51:1-4*
For the choir
director.
A Psalm of David, when Nathan
the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to
Bathsheba.
1. Be gracious to me, O God,
according to Thy lovingkindness;
According to the greatness of Thy compassion blot out
my transgressions.
2. Wash me thoroughly from my
iniquity,
And cleanse me from my sin.
3. For I know my
transgressions,
And my sin is ever before me.
4. Against Thee, Thee only, I
have sinned,
And done what is evil in Thy sight,
So that Thou art justified when Thou dost speak,
And blameless when Thou dost judge.
Questions
1. The intro lines to this
psalm give us the context. When did David write this
psalm?
2. In one word, what does David
want from God (see verses 1-2)?
Practical
help
David blew it! The godly
King of Israel opened the door to temptation at a
vulnerable point in his life and walked right over the
threshold into sin. You can read the sad, sordid story
in 2 Samuel 11. David lusted after a married woman
named Bathsheba, took her by force, and had sex with
her. Then, to cover up his involvement in her
pregnancy, he had her husband, Uriah the Hittite,
killed. Nearly a year passed between David's sin and
Nathan's prophetic visit. When Nathan called a spade a
spade, and identified David's actions as sin in the
sight of God, David came to his senses and realized
how wrong he had been.
His next action was to turn to
God. How very unlike what we often do! Believing that
God no longer wants anything to do with us after they
fail, Christians are tempted to turn away from God.
Nothing could be more wrong!
The moment we recognize that we
have sinned, we should turn to God. He welcomes
us and will grant what David asked — grace,
blotting out our transgressions, cleansing — in
short, forgiveness.
If you have failed recently in
your battle to stay away from porn, take a cue from
David. Don't delay. Run as fast as you can into the
forgiving arms of God.
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*"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD
BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation
1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977,
1995. Used by permission."
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