"Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me."
{Psalm 51:5} (NIV)
David is describing the problem that every one of us has; we have been sinful from the time we were conceived. A new born baby is as innocent as pure driven snow. They haven’t exercised their will in any way; they are too busy surviving and growing and learning. Yet as David catches sight of his sin, the Holy Spirit reveals to him that his sin problem is not a surface problem, it is a foundation problem.
The TV news present wicked people as though down deep they are good, they just made a terrible mistake, or they got caught up in circumstances beyond their control. The world constantly seeks to answer the question - WHY? - for all sorts of terrible deeds, and yet the world refuses to believe the truth that David shares in this verse. The reason people act wickedly is because everyone of us is sinful from the time we were conceived in our mother’s womb.
The real question that needs to be answered is – HOW? How can people who are sinful to their core, actually stop sinning, and begin to show love for people around them? How can we be the parents we should be, the neighbours we should be, the people that we should be? The world’s answer is to change their outer circumstances, but David knew better; he knew that he needed an inner change.
Friend, what about us today, are we looking for a change in our circumstance or are we looking for inner change?
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