The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, fearsome, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Psalm 41:4,
"O Lord, have mercy on me; heal me, for I have sinned against you."
"O Lord, have mercy on me; heal me, for I have sinned against you."
When David confessed sin, he did so by acknowledging his sin was against the Lord. He confessed his sin in the same way when he was confronted by the prophet Nathan after he had committed adultery with Uriah's wife, Bathsheba, and murdered him. There, and quite astonishingly, David says, "Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight..." Psalm 51:4. While David's sin was clearly against the married couple, it was David's perspective that first and foremost, he had sinned against the Lord.
All sin is committed against the Lord, not because the Lord is a moral principle, but because the Lord, as a person, is sinned against as the Creator. Whenever we sin, it is an expression of our rebellion and rejection of who the Lord made us to be and his purpose for which he made us. Because the Lord is a God of justice (see Jeremiah 9:24), he will hold all accountable for every sin ever committed. This is quite sobering considering the words of the author of Hebrews, "We know him who said, 'It is mine to avenge; I will repay,' and again, 'The Lord will judge his people.' It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." Hebrews 10:30-31.
Since we have all sinned and are convicted by the law the Lord gave Moses, how wonderful it is that he has sent his Son, Jesus Christ to take my place of punishment! All sin is sin against the Lord and all sin has been payed for by our matchless Savior, Jesus Christ! Through faith in him I have been made "righteous", just as if I had never sinned! What kind of a God sends his Son to die a horrible death to accomplish such thing for someone like me?!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your thoughts of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We'd love to hear from you!
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