King David is best known as a man after God’s own heart, but when David entered into a sinful adulterous relationship that led to the murder of Uriah the Hittite he was a man living after his own heart.

As the King of Israel David served God faithfully, until there came a day when David began living as a prodigal. Like many other prodigals, David squandered his relationship with God and in so doing shattered his covenant relationship with God! He squandered God’s mercy, His love, His friendship, and God’s grace and he began to live in a spiritual famine when he had traded the riches of God’s grace and love for the riches of the world’s power and prestige.

However, God loved David too much to leave him in his life of sin so God sent the prophet Nathan to invite David to repent. When David felt the full impact of his sins, he cried out to God in sorrow and penned the powerful words of Psalm 51 which help us understand that when we sin God alone is the only one who can forgive and restore us.

Do you understand that God takes sin very seriously and so should we! God takes sin seriously because He knows that when we sin, we build walls between our hearts and God’s. When we sin, we push Jesus so far away that we think God has abandoned and forsaken us and we are in spiritual pain and anguish!

But God’s truth about sin and forgiveness teaches us that God gave His one and only Son Jesus to the world so that all who believe in Him would not perish, but have eternal life. And Jesus our Immanuel – our God who promises He is With Us, is here now waiting for us to turn from our sin. So won’t you take time today to call upon His name with a sorrowful heart desperate for Jesus to come and destroy the walls our sin created just like He did when He tore the curtain of the temple in two so that we can be in His presence once again?