True Repentance II

Then David confessed to Nathan, “I’ve sinned against God.” Nathan pronounced, “Yes, but that’s not the last word. God forgives your sin. You won’t die for it. But because of your blasphemous behavior, the son born to you will die” 2Sam.12:13-14 [MSG].

You cannot use David as your justification for sexual impurity. David committed adultery once but you are on your tenth round. You are not David; you don’t even have a heart near David’s. You need to pray for one. Sometimes we only find true repentance when God disgraces us publicly and makes us publicly ashamed. It took David over one year to repent. Nathan finally came to meet him and made a public show of his sin. Why did it have to take that long? Nebuchadnezzar was forewarned, twelve months passed [one year], he did not repent. Nebuchadnezzar ate grass like a goat for seven years. After which Scripture states that his understanding came back and he said ‘I Nebuchadnezzar, I lifted up my eyes to heaven and said there is a God in heaven that rules over the affairs of men’. Why does it have to take you seven years of grass eating? I say to God, I do not want to eat grass. But if God loves you, He will publicly disgrace you. Until that happens to some people, they never find true repentance. Look at the woman caught in adultery [John 8]. Until she was caught, she did not meet Jesus. She didn’t find true repentance until she was a public spectacle. Some would say, ‘is she not repenting just because everybody now knows?’ So what? That may not have been the first time she committed adultery. Perhaps the first time she did it, the Holy Ghost warned her and she said, “I’m sorry but Your grace is sufficient”. When Christians begin to talk like that, they are not repentant. The second time, “we are all sinners saved by grace”. Have you heard that before? But when it was a public spectacle she finally found grace. The Scripture says, “Jesus is full of grace and truth”. Jesus is not only full of truth, He is also full of grace. Jesus is not only full of grace, He is also full of truth. So Jesus said to her, ‘neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more’. Jesus did not say, “You were abused as a child, you have sexual dependencies. When you go for therapy or visit with a psychologist for over six months then you would be fine”. No, Jesus says ‘Go and sin no more’.

Prayer: Father, wash me and give me a new heart, in Jesus Name.