"Your Sacrifice to God"

“Your Sacrifice to God”

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.        Psalm 51:10

My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.       Psalm 51:17

 

This psalm is King David’s prayer, because of his sin of adultery with Bathsheba.  David had been confronted by the prophet Nathan, about his transgression, and the fact that God was NOT PLEASED with his actions.   So David, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART penned this prayer.

 

David asked that God would CLEANSE him from his sins and to NOT remove His Holy Spirit from him.  In the New Testament times after Christ had ascended into Heaven, the Holy Spirit came to indwell the TRUE BELIEVER and He does NOT leave.  In David’s time He came and went. 

 

One of the things that David requested of God, was that He would CREATE in him a PURE HEART, and to RENEW a STEADFAST and a WILLING SPIRIT.  David hungered after God and His will.  He longed to have a RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with Him.  But this could NOT happen as long as David SINNED against God.  And it is the SAME with the TRUE BELIEVER of today.  We cannot have a RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with God, if we have UNCONFESSED SINS in our life.   So David asked God to RESTORE his RELATIONSHIP with Him.  David also knew that after his CONFESSION, he needed to make a PEACE offering to God.

 

David’s SACRIFICE was a BROKEN SPIRIT; A BROKEN and CONTRITE HEART.  These are what God wants from His Children.  These are signs that the Child of God, who sins against God, is SINCERE, and WILLING to be BROKEN and REMORSEFUL in SPIRIT and in HEART.   And to be able to have a RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with God, once again.   Are you harboring UNCONFESSED SIN in your HEART, is your RELATIONSHIP with God what it SHOULD BE?   You NEED to read this WHOLE PSALM and learn from David, the man after God’s own HEART.   And follow His example.

 

If you have NOT given your HEART and LIFE to God, then you are LIVING in SIN and you cannot have a RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with Him, and are headed for an ETERNITY in HELL, with all of its HORRORS, and NO WAY of ESCAPE.  In order to have a RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with God and to ESCAPE Hell, and GAIN Heaven, you MUST TURN AWAY FROM your sinful lifestyle and TURN TO God, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART, CONFESSING your sins to Him, and ask Him for His FORGIVENESS, BELIEVING, with ALL your HEART, that Jesus died for YOU, and is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for you, before God.  Then ACCEPT His gift of SALVATION and bring Him a PEACE OFFERING of a BROKEN SPIRIT, and a CONTRITE HEART, and start having a RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with Him.   Do this NOW, while you still can.  He’s waiting and coming SOON!!!