Psalm 32:5 is one of the truly great Verses of the Old Testament. It records the words of King David (later in the New Testament called “a man after God’s Own Heart”) as he “gets right” with God, apparently after the Bathsheba affair had occurred!
“I said, I will CONFESS my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou FORGAVEST the iniquity of my sin.” Again, this is Psalm 32:5.
Mind you, these are not the words of a lost man being converted. Not those of a sinner being “saved,” as we’d say toady.
No, this is the “confession” of a Believer in Jesus … coming back Home to His Lord, renewing “fellowship” with Almighty God!
(Yes indeed, unconfessed sin breaks fellowship/communion with the Lord! Psalm 66:18 provides one “Proof Verse” for this Fact.)
The verb translated “will confess” in today’s Text is “yadah” in Hebrew. It literally means “to throw, to shoot, to cast” something! The idea obviously is … “to throw” those sins into the Presence of the Lord! “To cast” them before His Throne of Grace! (If we can cast all our “worries and frustrations and cares” on the Lord, as 1 Peter 5:7 teaches us, so can we “cast” or “confess” our sins, with equal success!)
Tell the Lord, boldly yet reverently, what you’ve done wrong, all you’ve done wrong!
He will take care of the rest … look back to the Verse .,.. He will “forgive!” This verb is spelled “nasa” in its simplest form, meaning “to lift” a heavy load and dispense of it, carry it away!
How far away?
Psalm 103:12 … “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.”
Micah 7:19 … “He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.”
Wow!
Here is the glorious Counterpart to Psalm 32:5 in the New Testament … “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1st John 1:9, also written to Christians, not lost men and women!
So … there is no need for any one of us to go around carrying a load of unconfessed sins, not with such great Promises in the Bible!
Sadly, David did not confess his sins (adultery with Bathsheba and the subsequent murder of her husband Uriah, etc.) to the Lord for nearly a year after the encounter!
A year of heaviness and sorrow!
But once (and with immediate results) he did confess them … that load of guilt was miraculously lifted.
But did God really forgive the King?
Yes, based upon the Fact that David wrote many a Psalm after his mistake, after his lascivious sins were committed.
Hallelujah!
I am not trying to give anyone an excuse for sinning. But I am trying to give some Christian hope for those blots and scars and sins with which the devil is trying to “torment” you.
“Tell them to Jesus,” dear friend.
— Dr. Mike Bagwell
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