My wounds stink and fester because of my
foolishness.
(ESV)
King David has
increasingly become one of my favorite people in the Bible. He does great things and sins mightily, often
from one minute to the next, and lays everything, both good and bad, before
God. How brutally honest is this
verse? No wonder God called him a man
after His own heart.
Tired? Beat down and stressed? Fearful, filled with anxiety, or overwhelmed
with worry? Be honest for a moment and
ask yourself just how much of all that is the result of your own
foolishness. I know half…okay, scratch
that, seventy-five percent…oh, whom am I kidding, darn near all of the stress
and pressure in my life I put there myself whether through sin or foolish lack
of faith in God.
So what does
David do in a situation where we all find ourselves sometimes? He confesses his fault to God. He lays it right out there and begs for
help. Read the rest of this psalm and
you will get an idea of how a flawed man after God’s own heart lives a faithful
life.
Copyright © 2014 by Steven R. Perkins
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