6341	Forums / Prayer Requests / Re: Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me	on: May 21, 2008, 07:21:17 PM
God is really really good and forgiving. His love is everlasting. Since we cannot inform God on our present state of mind, then we are coming to a God that has given us a remedy in this Psalm. But the remedy was already obtained by Jesus Christ and was put into effect in time from before the foundation of the world. So that here we are reminded how faithful our God is, in forgiving all of our sins. Davids problem was that he had been caring this guilt around for a long time, and he only needed to see that God had made a time for him to come to this point were the guilt turned into an endless experience of Gods faithful forgiveness. David was made aware of his sin by the prophet, and it was then that he saw the awful state of his own heart. But he had been going to a God that was unfailing in His love, so David was led to a confession that was full of these longings for forgiveness and the forgetting of the guilt of sin. Gods acceptance of us is in psalm 51. Every sin that we commit is put under the compassion and mercy of God. We come knowing that a confession is only acceptable as Gods love being the starting point and the end. We have no forgiveness unless God has taken care of the sin. And since Christ has done the work, then we dont come groveling in our own mournful condition, but we come with full assurance that He has forgiven our sins and has separated us from our sins as far as the east is from the west. So that we come to the triune God who has worked out salvation and deliverance from sin, the Father who sent the Son, who sent the Spirit who assures us by the word, that we are fully accepted by grace. And so , we start in the Fathers unfailing love, we long to long for more of His communication of His unfailing love by our falling and getting up.  So that our confession is not just about the sin, but it is about the fellowship we have with the Spirit. When He speaks that peace and assurance to us, then we know we have a Father who is fully able to forgive and love us beyond our understanding. That is why we fellowship with the Spirit by our sin. We would never come to a Father who is ready to condemn us and remind us of our sins. But we come as people who live in repentance because we have grace by that sin. His grace is greater than our sin, so that it is not a hope that He is greater, but it is living in the reality that His grace is more powerful than the condemning voice of the law.  We are illuminated in such a way that we are under the constants of His love by being set free from our sins to rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. That is when we feel His presence in such a way that the world has no strong pull to our inmost longings. Here is where maturity of a repentant saint comes fully to fruitation. His kindness is extended to us as a Father who is determining to change us by the compassion of one who cares about our deepest longings while we come with our most dreadful sin.