Sunday Psalms;

Have mercy on me, 

O God, 

because of your unfailing love.

Psalms 51:1 NLT

This is a 'famous' song because it's written in response to a time in David's life when he was consumed by his own desires that led him to commit several crimes. 

His actions were awful. 

And yet here he is knowing that our God's character, who He is, is Unfailing Love, and he wants to be covered by that Unfailing Love. 

This can seem like an 'easy way out' for someone who has treated others as horribly as David did, yet he seems to get it;

"...blot out the stain of my sins. 

Wash me clean from my guilt. 

Purify me from my sin. For I recognize my rebellion; 

it haunts me 

day 

and 

night."

Psalms 51:1-3 NLT

I'm not sure why David didn't recognise his rebellion when he was in the beginning of it, or the middle of it, but he does now, so I guess that's something, even though it took the prophet Samuel to wake him up. 

So I wonder how different I am in seeing (or not seeing) my own sin for what it is, and I too need the outside perspective of a "Samuel" to tell me the truth. 

If "Samuel" turned up one day would I listen?

"Purify me with hyssop..."

Psalms 51:7 CEB

This line transports us forward to Jesus requesting hyssop on the cross, and reminds me that He paid the price for my sin. 

"Create 

in me 

a clean heart, 

O God."

Psalms 51:10 NLT

And there's an invitation to God to step in, to enter in, to make change, to shift things around in my heart, in the "who I am". This is serious work to invite God in. 

Deep work that David asks God to start in on. 

And perhaps that's what the core of this song is really about, inviting God in to create something new. 

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