Lesson 1: WE ARE NATURAL SINNERS
Psalms 51 was written by King David after prophet Nathan paid him a visit and was blunt with him about his (David) sinning. David had coveted someone’s wife, he had exercised adultery with her, impregnated her, lied to her husband, made him drunk, killed the husband, and took the wife.
The sin of David started with his choice as a king not to go to war at a time when all Kings went to war (2Samuel 11:1). It began from the point when an individual failed TO DO THE RIGHT THING AT THE RIGHT TIME.
This automatically made the king an idler. Can you imagine the president of a country who is idle and disorderly?! Because An idle mind is the Devil’s workshop. The king, from the roof of his house, started peeping in people’s bathrooms and behold, he saw a naked wife.
All this was so natural to David. I use the term natural here in the sense that he didn’t have to struggle. It was something flowing easily out of him. Look at what David says in verse 5:
Behold I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me
David here reveals to us two types of causes to our sinning:
- FALLENENESS: We are fallen and some of our sinning starts from the place of our fallenness. There are things we know they are wrong but find ourselves doing exactly those very things. It is a moment in life when you are actually against yourself.
- TEMPTATION: We are product-sinners of our temptation. Some of the sinning in our lives is not due to our fallenness but temptation. In other words, it is sinning even in our fallenness we could have avoided (David was supposed to be at the battlefront)
I could go on and on but this is the first lesson I draw from Psalm 51. Sin is too easy for us because naturally we are fallen. Doing wrong is sweeter than doing right. We tend to have joy in sinning and frown our faces in doing right.
We must always do the right thing at the right time to avoid most of the temptations in life.
God bless you, I invoke Truth, Reason, and Faith {2Tim 2:7}
Priest Isaiah White
@Think & Become
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