The second day of Lent—Taking our Thoughts Captive
Have mercy on me, God, according to your faithful love!
Wipe away my wrongdoings according to your great compassion!
2 Wash me completely clean of my guilt;
purify me from my sin!
3 Because I know my wrongdoings,
my sin is always right in front of me.
4 I’ve sinned against you—you alone.
Create a clean heart for me, God;
put a new, faithful spirit deep inside me!
11 Please don’t throw me out of your presence;
please don’t take your holy spirit away from me.
12 Return the joy of your salvation to me
and sustain me with a willing spirit.
13 Then I will teach wrongdoers your ways,
and sinners will come back to you
On this second day of Lent we look at David’s plea for mercy and forgiveness. David had sinned by having sex with Bathsheba, whose husband was on the battlefield fighting on behalf of David. But David stayed home.
Looking down on the houses below he saw a beautiful woman bathing on the rooftop. He could have turned away, he should have turned away. But he lingered, allowing his thoughts to become desire, and his desire drove him to sin.
Why was David called a man after God’s own heart? Not because he never sinned, but because he knew where to turn after he sinned.
May we, during this season of repentance, turn our eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face. And may we take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, that we might not sin against our God.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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