Create In Me a New Heart
"Soak me in your laundry and I’ll come out clean, scrub me and I’ll have a snow-white life. Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing. Don’t look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health, God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Don’t throw me out with the trash or fail to breathe holiness in me. Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails!” Psalm 51:7-11 MSG
All of us are battling it out…behind the facade, behind the nice picture we paint, we all are battling some demons in our lives. If you think you are not, there you are, battling self-righteousness, the idea that you are better than everybody else because you don’t struggle with the wickedest sins. Let’s not fool ourselves, we are all sinners (Rom 3:23) and leaders are not exempt of having some issues with sin. The more responsibility you have, the more powerful the attacks of the enemy will be to make you fall. David, a man after God’s own heart had issues too. His story gives us plenty to chew on, for when sin is hidden, we will try to keep it hidden by making more mistakes and sins!!!
Your story may not be as intense and problematic as the story of king David and Bathsheba, but you may be trying to hide the sin that so easily ensnares you. The amazing thing about all this is that even though God knows everything, and could change everything in an instant, He allows our freedom of choice to function, even though it may mean that it will take us down paths that we don’t need to be on. But God, will bring all into account at some point. He is righteous after all, and just with His people.
God wants His leaders to be accountable, to be righteous, to be close to Him, to lead by example. If by any circumstance, you have fallen short of that, know that HE is able to forgive you and to help you through it all. With His help, you may defeat your problems, your sins, your issues. Will you repent today so that HE can forgive you and change you?
#OneTeamChallenge
- Do you have an accountability partner? If you do not, find someone who is mature and godly enough to help you through some of the issues you may be dealing with.
- Read Psalm 51 in at least 3 different versions of the Bible, and at least 1 paraphrase and write down the message of God for you today
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I thank God for His forgiveness today. I may not be perfect, but I have asked forgiveness from the one who can forgive, and I am on my way forward with Him. #GodForgives #GodIsGracious #OneTeam