13 Then I will teach your ways to sinners, and they will return to you.
David says "then I will teach Your ways to sinners and they WILL return to you." Those words jumped out at me and screamed to be heard! David was saying when he allowed God to create in Him a pure heart that would allow God to be God in his life. The focus of his whole life would then change. David knew that this new relationship with God would become the focus of his life and that focus would give him the initiative he needed to make decisions that would honor God and allow God to be God in his life.
As God made a difference in David's life, people would see that difference and they would learn from what they saw in him. When David said, "then I will teach Your ways to sinners," he was not talking about teaching them with words, but rather teaching them as they watched the hand of God at work in his life! As these people saw God's hand at work in David's life, they would return to God!
The message that screams to be heard today is this; the lost are not turning to God because they are not seeing God in us! We have not surrendered ourselves to God to the point that He is able to do all that He so much wants to do in us and with us and through us. As a result, too many of us live defeated lives. We act like the rest of the world. We talk like the rest of the world. We live like the rest of the world and God's power and His provisions are nowhere to be found! Our churches are suffering as result of a lack of personal commitment and relationship to the Lord Jesus.
When God's people allow God to cleanse their hearts and restore the joy of His salvation in us, our walk will change. Our talk will change. Our lives will change. People will see that change. They will return to God and allow Him to make those changes in their lives! When Jesus made the promise that He would build His church and the gates of Hell would not prevail against it, He had in the back of His mind the principles of this prayer that David is praying. As people saw the church and the hand of God at work in the lives of His people, they would respond and they would come to Him as well!
Let's be the church that Jesus said He would build; let's watch the world respond!
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