Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; according to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Psalm 51:1-2.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God says:
I would be pleased if you would honor Me by trusting in My mercy.
Like David, just read Psalm 51. He honored Me by trusting in My lovingkindness, My grace, and My compassion to wash him clean of his sin and reinstitute him in the joy of My salvation. He approached Me with humble repentance but with total confidence in the greatness of My goodness, My mercy, and My ability to take away and cleanse him of his sin, in fact, so much so that he would be teaching transgressors My ways of lovingkindness and sinners would return and be converted to Me. Psalm 51:10-13. He did not let his sin make him give up. He honored Me by trusting in My mercy.
And think of Mark, he had deserted Paul and Barnabus in the middle of a mission trip. Paul did not want to give him another chance. But Mark did not give up. He trusted in My mercy, went back to the work of the ministry that he had deserted, and went on the write a Gospel. He honored Me by trusting in My mercy and not giving up because he had failed on an assignment.
Elijah deserted the cause to run away in fear in the middle of a great revival he had brought about on Mt. Carmel, wanted to end his life when I had just performed mighty miracles through him because of the threats of Jezebel, and then only did one of the three things I told him to go back and do. And yet I took him to Heaven in a whirlwind and he did not die. And he was with Me on the mountain to witness the transfiguration of My Son a hundreds of years later.
It is possible to overcome sin and disobedience by your relationship with Me. David did. Elijah did. Paul did. And you did.
All have sinned and fallen short of My glory but when you hope in Christ (the message of truth, the Gospel of your salvation) you are to the praise of My glory. Ephesians 1:12-13. You are united to the unfathomable riches of Christ.
The Bible is a book of edification, encouragement and exhortation. And you know that is prophecy. The Bible is a Book of prophetic utterance.
There are only two things I tell you release you from your sins and cleanse you as if they had never been, the Blood of Jesus and My Word. You have washed your robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb. And by His Blood, He has released you from your sins in His great love and made you a kingdom of priests—a royal priesthood onto Me in union with Him, your great High Priest. And My Word cleanses you, Jesus told His disciples that they were clean already because of the Word He had spoken to them. And He washes the church with the water of the washing in the Word, making you holy, blameless and without spot or wrinkle.
You honor Me when you are thankful for My mercy instead of beating yourself up emotionally all the time feeling that you have sinned and done evil in My sight for which I have not forgiven you. I have forgiven you in Christ. He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me and takes responsibility—orders his way, I shall show My Salvation (Yeshuah, Jesus). Psalm 52:23. Jesus is the good news of salvation. Joy is yours in Jesus.
You can have faith because of My faithfulness. My faithfulness is a shield and a buckler. It is I who sanctify you entirely; and I keep your spirit and soul and body preserved complete, without blame at the coming of your Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful am I who calls you, and I also will bring it to pass. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24. You are not on your own. It is I who am working in you to will and to do. You have only to walk it out.
Be careful what you invest your life in. The wages of sin is death, but My free gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus your Lord. Romans 6:23. Don’t spend your life on manini, dream B.I.G. (Beautiful in God). Little foxes destroy your vineyard. Grow rich towards Me, give to receive. Jesus, I gave Him to you that you might live through Him in accordance with My eternal purpose which I carried out in Christ Jesus, in whom you have boldness and confident access through faith in Him. Ephesians 3:11-12.
Do you know what My eternal purpose is? To reconcile all to Myself in Christ. To treat you as if you had never sinned or gone away from Me. I chose you in Jesus before the foundation of the world that you would be holy and blameless before Me. In Jesus, you have redemption through His Blood, the forgiveness of your trespasses according to the riches of My grace, which I lavished on you. Ephesians 1:4-7. I have blessed you in Him with every spiritual blessing in Heaven. By grace you have been saved through faith, and that is not of yourselves, it is My gift to you in My Son, not as a result of works, that no one may boast. If you could have made yourself righteous, Christ would not have had to die for you. Relax and know that I am God.
Being rich in mercy, because of My great love with which I loved you even when you were dead in your transgressions I made you alive (abundant life) together with Christ (by grace you have been saved) and raised you up with Him and seated you with Me in Heaven in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4-6. Honor Me by being trusting in My infinite love and mercy, justly applied to you in Christ, overflowing with gratitude. Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize. Colossians 2:18.
In Christ, I have opened a place of repentance where you can come back to oneness with Me and I can dwell with you and you with Me in intimate union as one—a people I have blessed. I have opened to you a new and living way right to My throne of grace, opened by a Man like you in all things but sin, He never sinned and you can go in as Him. He is your substitute who becomes you before Me. Is merits and sinless life are imputed to you and your sins to Him. That is the only way to be totally cleansed and justified. Not by your power or might or effort or penance but by the Holy Spirit, baptized into Christ and regenerated by My Spirit of love.
2020, the Year of Grace, when all things are shaking and falling in place, the place of repentance has opened for you, the living way to the Holy of Holies where all is made new through the faithful and true. You are standing in grace now justified in Christ, your High Priest standing at your side to bring you home in in perfect peace to Me, reconciled in Him and washed clean in His blood, made holy in love.
I love you. You’ve been broken and humbled but I sustained you all through and now I have made a new you. I would be pleased if you would honor Me by trusting in My mercy. Do not look back with regret, look forward with joy to all the good I have for the new you. You have lost nothing for you have gained all.