Where does one really find joy? Does it happen when I get my drivers license, when I get my first car, when I meet my first love, when I get through with college, or I get married, or is it when I have my first new child? There are people who are on a long search for something that will fill that emptiness in their gut.
David says very clear, joy is found when a man's sins are forgiven. In the Psalm 32, David expresses a season of his life when he was covering up a time where he had made a great blunder. He lusted after Bathsheba's beauty, slept with her hoping nobody would find out. To make sure nobody would put two and two together, he had her husband killed then he took her to be his wife.
David is expressing days that have gone by, "My bones waxed old through my roaring all the night long." He tossed and turned in the night miserable about his evil acts of adultery and murder. David starts out this Psalm, "Blessed is the man whose sins is forgiven." There is no joy like knowing things are cool between you and the Lord.
Why would anybody want to be at odds with God? Why would anybody want to go into hiding from a Holy God? Like a small child not wanting to see mom or dad when they come home, knowing they have done something wrong.
Months later, the prophet Nathan comes to David and it was revealed that David had been hiding his sin. David confesses that he had sinned and cries out to God for his mercy. The greatest joy a man can ever find in this life is to know that everything is right between him and God. Life is to short to live your life with covered up sin.
James says; "Confess your sins to God, He is faithful and just to cleanse us from all of our unrighteousness." Jesus teaches his disciples to pray each day, "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil."
One day, when Oral Roberts kids were small, he said he came home without asking any questions and gave his son a wiping. He later explained to him I just figured you needed one for all the times that you didn't get one. We all know there were times we may have felt we got away with something, but you know it in your heart when you have said something you shouldn't said, your attitude got out of line, your actions brought a heaviness in your spirit.
Friend real joy is found in keeping God's peace of forgiveness in your heart. David said, "When I kept silent my bones waxed old." Another words when he failed to bring to God his failures and mistakes he lived with this heaviness in his life. Go to God and get it out. God isn't looking for reason to junk you or get rid of you. He loves you and is just waiting for you to come to him for His mercy.
When there is real joy in your spirit, it will show and glow to others around you. There is nothing better else in life than knowing your sins are forgiven never to be in God's memory again. God says, "He buries our sins in the sea of forgetfulness."
God has a joy that puts a spring in your step and a smile on your face. Has He done that for you? He says, "Out of our bellies shall flow rivers of living waters." Are they flowing from your inner most being today? If not get alone with him today, confess whatever is troubling your inner man and watch the Lord restore unto you the joy of your salvation.
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