Keep
Your Servant
From
Deliberate Sins!
Don't
Let Them Control Me.
Scripture
Psalm
19
13 Keep your
servant from deliberate sins!
Don’t let them control me.
Then I will be free of guilt
and innocent of great sin.
Don’t let them control me.
Then I will be free of guilt
and innocent of great sin.
14 May the
words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing to you,
O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing to you,
O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
Observation
Here
is what I have noticed and I hope you have too, when sin controls my
life, I try to blame everybody else for my bad behavior, everybody
around me gets thrown under the bus, especially my spouse!
Don't
act shocked, it happens in your life too! And it is ridiculous!
For
example we could hear someone say, “It is your fault that I am
yelling; it is your fault that I am mean and hateful.” Or one might
hear, when a husband or wife is unfaithful in their relationship to
the other, “It is your fault that I am committing adultery”.
Everybody
gets thrown under the bus. All of us have felt the pain of getting
thrown under the bus by someone else! The guilty party wants to put
the guilt on everybody else … except on themselves.
Remember
this, “Sin
will take us farther than we want to go, keep us longer than we want
to stay, and cost us more than we want to pay. –”
King
David was
crying out to God for help to keep him from deliberate sins! You and
I need to do the same thing!
Our
enemy Satan knows where we are weak. He knows what sins are
especially attractive to us and he tempts us to take the bait.
What
we thought was so appealing, what we thought was so attractive now
has taken control of us … and it is not pretty!
If
we find ourselves under the control of a particular sin, we don't
have to stay under its control – we can cry out to God, we can turn
away from the sin, we can turn to Him, and we can ask God to forgive
us of the sin.
And
then we must ask those who we have hurt, especially our spouse, to
forgive us too.
Psalm
51:10&17
Create
in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a loyal spirit within me.
Renew a loyal spirit within me.
The
sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit.
You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.
You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.
1
John 1:9
9 But
if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us
our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.
Application
When
I sin I will accept responsibility for my sin and not try to put the
blame on someone else. Plus, I know that Kathy is not going to let me
put the blame of my bad behavior on her!
How
about you? Man up ... or will you continue to try to put the blame on
someone else?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, Keep your servant from deliberate sins! Don’t let them
control me. Then I will be free of guilt and innocent of great
sin. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be
pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
Daily
Bible Reading: Ezekiel 47,48; Luke 2; I added: Psalm 19, Psalm 39,
Proverbs 19
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