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The Beginning of the End
to repentant sinners: “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a
broken and a contrite heart—These, O God, You will not despise.”
(
Psalm 51:17
).
Though David had fallen, the Lord lifted him up. In the joy
of his release he sang, “I acknowledged my sin to You, and my
iniquity I have not hidden. I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions
to the Lord,’ and You forgave the iniquity of my sin.” (
Psalm 32:5
).
David humbled himself and confessed his sin, while Saul, in con-
trast, despised reproof and hardened his heart in making excuses for
himself.
This passage in David’s history is one of the most forcible illus-
trations given to us of the struggles and temptations of humanity,
and of genuine repentance. Through all the ages, thousands of God’s
children who have been betrayed into sin have remembered David’s
sincere repentance and confession and have taken courage to repent
and try again to walk in the way of God’s commandments.
All who will humble themselves with confession and repentance,
as David did, may be sure that there is hope for them. The Lord will
never cast away one truly repentant soul.
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