Do you have a favorite sin that you just can’t get rid of? Do you feel guilty every time it raises its ugly head? Would you like to rid yourself of it forever? Have you taken it before God? Have you poured out your heart and asked God to remove it from you?
We all have our favorite sin or sins. We may be able to overcome one or two of them on our own with sheer will power. However, there is almost always at least one that we cannot. We must have God’s help. We must ask him to remove it from us.
Our sins come in many shapes and forms. They range from our speech to our behavior to our attitudes to our thoughts and to physical actions. We know we shouldn’t do them or be that way, but we just can’t help ourselves…literally! We try and try, but we can’t stop. We commit to stopping and fall for them again.
There is only one way we can rid ourselves from them. We must submit to God and ask him to take them away. Our submission must be complete. We must be ready to give them up. Yet, we often want to hold on to them with our hands clinched around them as though our life depended on it. Unfortunately, our life really depends on us letting them go.
King David knew what it meant to have his sin ever before him. He knew what it meant to fall to his knees before God and beg him to remove it. He did so and God called him a man after his own heart. We, too, can fall before God and beg him to remove our sin. God can and will remove it from us, so long as we are willing to submit to him.
I pray we all choose to submit to God. I pray we ask God to have mercy on us. I pray each one of us will ask God to cleanse us and remove our sin from us. Submit to God. Ask him to remove your sin. Ask God for his mercy. Be cleansed by God. Be set free from your sin.
Psalm 51:1-3
Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin.
For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me.
Marty Pressey 