“The Humble and Contrite Spirit”

Broken and Contrite Religious Bulletin
 
by Dona Hake
 
 
 
Psalm 51:15-17Amplified Bible

 

“O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
For You delight not in sacrifice, or else would I give it; You find no pleasure in burnt offering.
 My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.” 

 
 
These particular scriptures are David’s heart as he cried  out to God after he majorly messed up and committed sin .  He had sinned with Bathsheba, and he knew he was  wrong and he was humbling himself to the Lord.  David understood God’s steadfast love and His tender mercies.  As He cried out to God, and he proclaimed his understanding that God desired him to have truth in his inner being, and to know wisdom.  His prayer was his cry for a cleansed heart, and a renewed and persevering spirit.
 
 
 
These scriptures can serve to remind us that when we find ourselves ensnared by the devil or our own weakness that  we have access to God’s forgiveness.   God is looking for the contrite in spirit, and that is the state of knowing we are sincerely  remorse for what we have done wrong.    God does not want excuses, He wants us to look to Him with an honest and  repentant heart.
 
 
 
  Let us remember that we cannot put “bandages” on our mistakes, and hurts that we have caused ourselves or others.  We cannot do good works to make it up either.  Remember when we humble ourselves and confess our sin that God forgives and He forgets it.    It has been thrown into the sea of forgetfulness to be remembered no more.  Praise be to God for His tender mercies and the blessing of being forgiven.
 
 
Isaiah 66:2 (GNT)

 

“I myself created the whole universe! I am pleased with

those who are humble and repentant, who fear me and obey me.”