It would be wonderful if we trusted Christ and became a child of God and never, ever had any tendency to sin. We know from experience that is not the case. Every one of us has the old Adamic nature residing within us until the day that the Lord calls us out into eternity. When Adam and Even sinned in the Garden of Eden against the Lord a sinful nature was bestowed upon every human born from that moment forward. When we are saved we receive a new nature by the indwelling Holy Spirit, but that old nature, the flesh is always lurking in the shadows of our life. The Bible clearly teaches us that we are tempted by Satan through the flesh, that nature that causes us to do what is wrong. When we fail in our Christian life and sin against God. What do we do then? If we look in the Scriptures at Psalm 51 we find David at a point of tremendous sadness and repentance for his sin. David had sinned with Bathsheba, another man's wife and when she had become pregnant with his child he had the man put at the front of the battle and killed in order to conceal his sin. God sent the prophet Nathan to David to reveal to him how abominable his sin really was in the sight of God and in Psalm 51 we see David's prayer of repentance.
Psa 51:1 "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Psa 51:2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Psa 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest."
1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
In I John 1:9 we notice the word "Confess" that world literally means to "agree with God". When we see our sin as a Holy God sees it, then we can respond in repentance and confession and God will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
In Ps. 51:3 We see David acknowledging his transgression to God and realizing whom His sin was really against. Our sin is a direct affront to the God who loved us and gave himself for us. We should always be quick to confess our sin to God to ask God for His forgiveness. I have a dear friend that pastored for many years and he always preached from the pulpit, "Keep short accounts with God!". He was reminding Christians that when we sin against God we should immediately upon the conviction of the Holy Spirit make things right between us and God by confession of our sin to God. When we see our sin for what it is and confess it to God, He is always standing faithful to forgive us and cleanse us so we can preserve the right walk with Him.
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