Good
Morning All,
Psalm 32:5; “Then I acknowledged
my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.” And you forgave the guilt of my sin.”
Whenever I do some
“heavy” work, I always start humming that Tennessee Ernie Ford song “Sixteen
Tons.” “You load sixteen ton and what do
you get, another day older and deeper in debt.”
There are a lot of days when it feels like that is about all I get done
in a day, just a little deeper in debt.
I spin my wheels and go like a madman and the pile that I was working on
did not get any smaller; it just shuffled a little. Have you ever felt like
that; just a little more in debt, a little more weight on your back to carry?
Our verse is from that great confessional
Psalm written by David. It was written
during the time when David had committed adultery and had the husband killed in
battle. David did all he could to hide
his sin and his shame from God and the people.
He may have fooled the people, but he did not fool God. So as David carried these sins with him, in
an effort to hide the truth from God; David only got deeper in debt. The weight of carrying that sin only weighed
him down. When you read the verses
immediately preceding this one you see phrases like “my bones
wasted away through
my groaning all day long” and “my strength was sapped as in the heat of
summer.” These are phrase that speak to
the pain of bearing sin.
That is what happens when we refuse to
repent and try to either hide the sin we commit, or we try to think that “I can
handle this one; it isn’t that bad.” We
keep the sin in our own body, on our own back.
We carry the weight and it is soon like carrying sixteen ton and at the
end of the day, you are only deeper in debt owing more for the sins that you
carry. This isn’t something that God
imposes on us; this is completely self-inflicted. We carry the pain of the sin, the weight of
the sin, we carry the guilt of the sin.
The devil wants you to feel guilty; he loves to torment you with the
doubts that guilt places in your heart and on your soul, sixteen ton and what
do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. All we get when we hold onto sin is more
pain, guilt, and a greater debt for the sin.
But God tells us we do not have to carry
that sin. God has already forgiven that
sin. So when we acknowledge, or confess
that sin, we are not telling God some big secret, He already knows what you
did; confession is like saying to God, “Here God, I am tired of carrying this
sin around; you can have it.” And God
takes it. He takes that sin and ships it
as far as the east is from the west. It
is no longer your burden because it never had to be; you chose to hold onto it!
God forgives your sin, let him take it from
you so the devil has no ammunition to fire at you. Don’t keep your sin; let go and get out of
debt. Let God’s mercy carry you home so
that you can enjoy God’s abundant grace and blessings.
Father of all mercies, your wondrous love is new
to us each day. Help us to see that we
are the cause of our debt; that we refuse to give to you our sins. We foolishly or shamefully hang onto them out
of pride or fear, but we hang onto them and we are weighted down more and
more. Free us from this burden that we
may live the life which you have freely given to us. In Jesus precious name we pray, amen.
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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