David was tempted by Bathsheba, he committed adultery with her. God loved David and David was a man after God’s heart. He was still a man – just like you and me he is tempted by our flesh. My case is more like food, others wine, beer, sex, drugs and danger. Some are worse then others, but all things that take us from God can be offensive to Him.

For a split second he saw her and had to have her. Have you made that kind of split second decision. I want that carrot cake and I am going to have it. But afterwards – I am full of it and feel sick. Well all sin can make us feel guilty. Sin really isn’t good for us. You see a glass of wine or a piece of cake carrot isn’t a sin, but too much of a good thing can be.

So how did David handle his transgression.

Psalm 51 is a good place to start:

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.6 Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned – That is, the sin, considered as an offense against God, now appeared to him so huge and so serious, that, for the moment, he lost sight of it considered in any other of its bearings. It “was” a sin, as all other sins are, primarily and mainly against God; it derived its chief abomination from that fact. We are not to suppose that David did not believe and notice that he had done wrong to people, or that he had offended against human laws, and against the well-being of society. His crime against Uriah and his family was of the deepest and most serious character, but still the offense derived its chief atrociousness from the fact that it was a violation of the law of God.

Tomorrow we’ll read on in Psalm 51 as Lysa does in her book – we will pick up in the Cleansing.