Psalm 51 con’td (written after David committed adultery)
Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
Yet you desired faithfulness
even in the womb; you
taught me wisdom in that secret place.
It doesn’t take long for parents
to realize that their kids have to be “taught” to obey and treat others
kindly. It’s not in the heart of a child
to do this. Children want food and
drink, and they want it now, and they want what’s theirs, and they’ll take it
from you. Kids who grow up without
parents to train them end up being the adults who do evil things to others.
We are born into sin, and we need
a savior, and God has granted us a way to escape a life of sin.
He desired us before we were
born, even as we were being formed in our mother’s womb.
The end of this verse says “you
taught me wisdom in that secret place.”
God has put within each of us the
knowledge and the wisdom to respond to Him, to seek him, and to realize that
without him we are nothing. This is true
wisdom. And it’s the truth that leads us
to repentance when we have sinned against Him.
Children want to learn, they
want to please, and they want to obey.
We have to guide them to it.
God has infinite wisdom
available for us, and when we repent from evil, turn to him, we can walk in
that wisdom instead of that sin.
It's then, and only then, that we are free.
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