Day::81

I noticed a huge transition between verse six and verse seven. David is admitting his filthy heart in the first, and then he is praising God for the ways He can make it clean in the very next verse-

Psalm 51:6-7
I've been out of step with you for a long time,
in the wrong since before i was born.
What you're after is truth from the inside out.
Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.

Soak me in your laundry and I'll come out clean,
scrub me and I'll have a snow-white life.
Tune me in to foot tapping songs,
set these once broken bones to dancing.

I think this shift is huge. It shows honesty and courage on David's part, and grace and forgiveness on God's part. I see this over and over and over in my life. I am constantly falling down and realizing my horrible sinfulness. I watch myself fall flat on my face after falling over the same thing i tripped on last time. I hate it. I hate sin. But once i make that shift- from hating my sin, to loving my God- He is right there to pick me up and extend his grace and forgiveness to me. And each time it's a little more incredible... and each time it's completely undeserved.

God, I want to love you more than i hate my sin.