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Meditation
Good morning, Reader,
The first 6 verses of the Psalm are David's repentance as he owns his sin and recognizes God's need for inner truth.
Today's verses capture his restoration and renewal in two phases. His request for cleansing and pardon (verses 7-9) and his prayer for the renewal of his spirit.
Only God can cleanse, pardon and renew our spirits.
Verse 8 of the Metrical version stands out, adding a personal and relational directness to the psalm that is absent from the NIV translation.
Adding the detail that it is God's active and personal voice he needs to hear, so that he might fully rejoice in his correction.
True restoration, then, requires the specific voice of the One who disciplines us. It’s the voice of the Father reassuring the child that the chastisement is over and reconciliation is assured.
Be sure to click the link here or below to hear how this Psalm sounds when sung unaccompanied.
Today's verses are Psalm 51:7-12
Psalm 51
7 Do thou with hyssop sprinkle me, I shall be cleansed so;
Yea, wash thou me, and then I shall be whiter than the snow.
8 Of gladness and of joyfulness make me to hear the voice;
That so these very bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 All mine iniquities blot out,
thy face hide from my sin.
10 Create a clean heart, Lord, renew a right sp’rit me within.
11 Cast me not from thy sight, nor take thy Holy Sp’rit away.
12 Restore me thy salvation’s joy; with thy free Sp’rit me stay.
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Psalm 51 (NIV)
7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins
and blot out all my iniquity.
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
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Encouragement
18 Who is a God like you,
who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
of the remnant of his inheritance?
You do not stay angry forever
but delight to show mercy.
19 You will again have compassion on us;
you will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
Micah 7:18-19
Andy
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