Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. (Psalm 51:12-13)
NOTE: The blue and underlined words below are live hyperlinks of Scripture.
King David pleads for pardon, that he may promote the glory of God and the conversion of sinners. His plea reminds us of the New Testament exhortation in Hebrews 10:22: Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
No one is more miserable than a born-again Christian in whom the Spirit of God dwells, who is out of fellowship with God. When we begin to walk in our own path, the first thing we sense is a strange loneliness. We miss God. It's unnamed, but like Samson after his hair had been cut, he "wist not that the LORD was departed from him.(Judges 16:20)" The Spirit of God is grieved and He withholds the inner peace. We are still His children and He will deal with us as His children. We become restless and begin to search for something that will fill up the emptiness and uneasiness.
God is patient with us, but His patience is not unending. If we do not take the initiative to repent and draw back into fellowship with Him, there will come a day when He will begin chastisement as an effort to bring us back in fellowship with Himself. Beyond that is the point at which He will cut us off, the sin unto death. In Paul's instructions in partaking of the Lord's Supper, he warned of the sin unto sickness and the sin unto death. He also instructed us that if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged of the Lord. (Please note the blue links that lead to scriptures.)
A good day to you! Let's walk with God and His King Jesus today. Ω
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