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April 7th, Evening Deliver me from blood-giltiness
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O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing a loud of your righteousness, Psalm
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In this solemn confession it is helpful to observe that David plainly names his sin.
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He does not call it manslaughter, or speak of it as an imprudence by which an unfortunate
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accident occurred to a worthy man, but he calls it by its true name, blood-giltiness.
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He did not actually kill the husband of Bathsheba, but still it was planned in David's
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heart that your eye should die, and David was before the Lord responsible for his murder.
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Learn in confession to be honest with God.
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To not give fair names to foul sins, call them what you will, they will smell no sweeter.
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What God sees them to be, that you should work to fill them to be, and with an honest
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open heart acknowledge their real character.
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Observe that David was evidently oppressed with the heinousness of his sin.
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It is easy to use words, but it is difficult to feel their meaning.
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The 51st Psalm is the photograph of a contrite spirit.
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Let us seek to display the same brokenness of heart, because no matter how excellent
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If our heart is not conscious of the hell-deservingness of sin, we cannot expect to find forgiveness.
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Our text has in it an earnest prayer.
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It is addressed to the God of salvation.
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It is his prerogative to forgive.
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It is his very name and office to save those who seek his face.
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Better still, the text calls him the God of my salvation.
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We bless his name, and that while we are still going to him through Jesus' blood, we
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may rejoice in the God of our salvation.
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The psalmist ends with a commendable vow.
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If God will deliver him, he will sing.
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Actually, he will sing aloud.
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Who can mute their praise in light of such a mercy as this, but note the subject of
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We must sing of the finished work of a precious Savior, and the one who knows this forgiving
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love the best will sing the loudest of us all.
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This has been morning and evening, a production of Crossway.
