David recognized that at the root of all of his sin from the pettiest offense to murder and adultery all of it was an insult to the God who created him and had sustained him every moment of his life before the sin claims any victims it’s already been an injury to the person of God if you sin against me for instance I can forgive you personally but I can’t give you that deeper level of forgiveness with God I can’t remove the offense against the Lord only he can do that the world would pressure us to dismiss the category of sin altogether

but there’s no way to be made well unless we first acknowledge the reality of what we’ve done and apart from this our situation is hopeless if you keep posturing if you keep manipulating what you did to make it look better than it really is before God you will never sense the reality of his forgiveness for over one year after his sin with bath Sheba and his murder of her husband Uriah David had refused to acknowledge his sin in Psalm 51 we find out how he finally confessed his sin and the initial prayer to God for

forgiveness but here in the 32nd Psalm David looks back on that whole experience and he encourages all of us to seek forgiveness as we go through the psalm we need to keep in the back of our mind that this is written by a tormented man who has waited 12 months to get right with God and it begins with the priority of forgiveness in verses 3 and 4 David writes when I kept silent my bones grew old through my groaning all the day for day and night your hand was Heavy upon me and my Vitality was turned into the drought of Summer now Gulf of

Silence stretched between God and David and the man after God’s Own Heart found himself exiled because he chose not to confess his sin David describes his pain if you look at the text notice three things about his situation he was wasting away my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long the verb for grow old means to waste away David’s energy in strength were diminished he became weak as he carried the burden of his Unforgiven sin the weight of his soul began to wear out the strength of his body and he felt