Dirty to Clean

At some point in the scriptures, David was referred to as “a man after God’s own heart”. This should give hope to all of us who have failed.

There was a time in David’s life when he saw a beautiful woman (Bathsheba) bathing on her rooftop and lusted after her to the point of committing adultery. Not only that, after the “incident” she became pregnant with his child. David even brought her husband home from battle to be with her to cover it up. When that didn’t pan out, he placed Bathsheba‘s husband, Uriah on the front lines of the battlefield to assure he wouldn’t make it out. Uriah was indeed killed, and David married Bathsheba.

Sounds almost unforgivable, right? Wrong! Thank goodness for second chances and a God that is loving and forgiving. Otherwise, there would be a lot of hopeless folks out there.

What changed in David’s life that recreated him to become someone distinguished as a man after God’s own heart? A true broken and repentant heart! He knew that his life hadn’t reflected God’s nature. He wanted his heart to be clean and he asked God to renew him. And you know what? God did what David asked, He forgave his sins and then never held them against him. God is good like that. Psalm 103:12 says “He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.”

God will not turn His back on those that come to Him in true repentance. Notice I said “true” repentance. If you have plans to repeat those sins again and again, that is not true repentance. You have to want a pure heart. You have to desire to live a life of a renewed mind. Thinking like God thinks. When you request His forgiveness, He will forgive and forget your mistakes so you can become that “man/woman after God’s own heart. “

Psalm 51:10 KJV

[10] Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. #helpforyourdailywalk #paulaandthebible