9358	Forums / Theology Forum / Does Conviction Of Our (my) Sin Dirve Us To Jesus.	on: March 19, 2006, 09:01:11 AM
Quote I think we drive ourselves away from Jesus. I mean we have a remedy as believers. We can go 24 hrs a day to confess our sins and plead the promises. I have found in my own self that i do confess my sin and that i am a helpless sinner in need of forgiveness. Yet in Psalms 51 there is a misunderstanding of just seeing the Psalm as totally concentrated on confession. There are pleas for more of the Holy Spirit, more joy so there the psalmist is mixing confession with an intense desire to have a pleasure even tho the sin was grievous. We are not just people with list as if we were interested in going to the Father to get forgiveness for forgiveness sake. You know if you knock on the door long enough ,that is if you mix confession with please for fellowship with the Father then there will be a sorta forgetting of self, (which is a sin in confessing sin), and there will be an abundance of the Holy Spirit, there that oneness and fellowship with the Father will grow. With someone who has little knocking and fellowship confession is a chore a burden, a real condemnation,an attack by the devil to obstruct fellowship in prayer. That is why there are long delays in some to go to the Father, by being duped by the devil. The truth is that confession is only one aspect of prayer and is also a part of the over all attitude we should have in prayer, a humble contrition, a bowing before Gods loving providence, a being over taken in heart felt emotion, being drawn out into pleasure so that we will actually spend more time in pleasure, drawn away from sin, by the pleasure, as if love snuffed out other idols, that is finding the pleasure treasure and not being content with anything less . Make Zion prosper build up the walls of Jerusalem!. Here is Davids over all attitude, here the providence of God was made known to him in the child of adultery, and yet that intense desire for the child to live was in David, so that his prayers were fervent because he hoped against hope. He had learned the wideness of Gods love and so here you havePs 51 as a confession of deep significance yet you have days of pleading the promises for a reversal of the discipline. Wow, now is it really David trying to change Gods decree or is it God working through David in prayer in deep fellowship to have pleasure in the mist of dire circumstances?