Psalm 51 cont'd:
Then I will teach transgressors
your ways,
so that sinners will turn back to you.
Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior,
and my tongue will sing of your
righteousness.
This is the beauty of
repentance. When we stumble and fall,
and we experience the forgiveness of God, we want to help others and keep them
from stumbling into the same pit from which we were rescued. We know the darkness and the separation that
comes from sin.
Another response to being
forgiven is the desire to sing of His righteousness. When our souls are set free from the bondage
that shame brings, we cannot help but burst forth into song.
In fact, I’d say these two
things are marks of a truly repentant heart:
Wanting to help others who are
in sin
Wanting to sing about Him
If we sin and we only want to be
forgiven because we got caught and we want to get on with our lives, and we
only want to get back on solid ground so that we can move forward, we’ve missed
the meaning of true repentance.
True repentance glorifies God by
responding to him in word and deed for the rest of our lives.
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