Psalm 39:9-13 “I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it. Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand. When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath. Selah. Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were. Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

In 1 Samuel 13:14 God calls David a man after His own heart. Some wonder if David lost that status later on because of his sin, particularly his sin with Bathsheba. But David wasn’t sinless before God chose him! Sin crops up in all of our lives, even though we try to do our best to follow God. When we sin, it puts up a barrier between us and Him, which is why David says, “for I am a stranger to you.” David continues to be a person after God’s own heart because, when he realizes the full extent of his sin, he turns to God in repentance.

2 Samuel 12:13 “David said to Nathan, ‘I have sinned against the LORD.’ “

Psalm 51:3-4 “For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me. Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.”

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