"Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you."
{Psalm 51:13} (NIV)
Do I know God’s ways? Do we know how God operates? God is infinite, and therefore everything that He is, is infinite. We are finite and so we can never comprehend God. But we can know His ways.
He has written down for us in His Word accounts of how He deals with humans. Individual humans, and groups of humans. Humans that lived a long time ago, and humans who have yet to be born. Friend we can learn about God’s ways by reading how He deals with other people. But we will only truly learn God’s ways for ourselves if we surrender to Him and allow Him to deal with us.
David humbled himself, asked God for mercy, asked God to cleanse him, and blot out his sin. David even asked God to change his very nature, by creating for him a new heart, and a steadfast spirit. David knows that the key to his inward change is God’s Holy Spirit! So he asks God to leave His Spirit to do His work in David’s life.
Friend, this is how God operates! Do you know this for yourself today? Let us humble ourselves, plead for mercy, and ask for the Holy Spirit to change us in our innermost being. Then, as we experience the joy of the LORD, and we notice others who have been dragged down by unconfessed sin, let us teach them the wonderful gracious ways of our God.
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