Sin is Serious Business Psalm 19:13

. 11Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. 12Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. 13Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. 14Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.



The law of the Lord is ours to warn us and to reward us. When we lean toward temptation, the Holy Spirit speaks to the heart of the child of God and reminds us of God's will for us in that matter. He reminds us that His plans are much better than the rewards that the temptation may offer. In fact, David reminds us that God's rewards are more than good; they are great!

David asks the Lord to cleanse him from his secret faults. We need to pray and ask God for the wisdom that we need to walk through life and allow Him to be our fortress and our foundation. We need to allow Him to do the things that He has planned to do for us. Notice David asks the Lord to keep him from "presumptuous sins". He does not want them to have hold over him. These are bold blatant sins that we flaunt in the face of our Lord. These are the sins that we commit that we know even before we do them that God would not and could not be pleased with. It is amazing how poorly we really do live our lives. As someone has said, we are paying an awful high cost for a lot of low living.

When we refuse to settle for what the world offers and we stand in faith on the Word of God, we find God's righteousness. When we allow Him to be our strength and our stay, we find life that is so much easier and so much more rewarding on a day by day basis, which is really we all want in our lives.

Finally, the desire of David's heart is that the words of his mouth and the meditation of his heart will be acceptable in God's sight. The words we speak and the thoughts we think are really the essence of who we are. Think about it for a moment. The thoughts we think determine what we say and what we do. As we think so are we! Our lives are the product of the many decisions that we made just minutes ago as well as years ago. Every decision that we make impacts our future.

David wants his decisions to be acceptable in God's sight. Why? He wants his decisions to be acceptable so that God can be his strength and his redeemer! When our thoughts and our decisions are made acceptable to the Lord, then He is able to do for us as He has planned to do. He is able to make our lives worth living! He is able to bless us and make us a blessing to others. The desire of our heart needs to be focused on one area and that area is our thoughts. We need to strive to hold our thoughts captive to the Lord and making our decisions pleasing in His sight. When we do that, we too will be able to call God our strength and our redeemer as well!