There’s bad news, and good news. The bad news is, when David tried to hide his sin, God exposed it to the entire nation. The good news is, when he repented of his sin, God forgave him and wiped his record clean. And what God did for David, He’ll do for us. All we have to do is pray, ‘Cleanse me from my sin…Create in me a clean heart, O God’ (vv. 2, 10 NKJV). If you want to know how God responds to a prayer like this, here’s what He said to Solomon, David’s son: ‘If you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, “You shall not fail to have a man on the throne of Israel”’ (1 Kings 9:4-5 NKJV). Today, you may feel that because of your sin you’re beyond hope and redemption, that you’ve given up the opportunity to be useful to God and to fulfil your destiny. But this isn; true! You can recover. You can be restored. You can be forgiven. You can regain your integrity. You can be healed and become whole again. You can sing: ‘There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel’s veins, and sinners plunged beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains.’ Today, know that God will forgive and restore you. All you have to do is ask Him.
