Day 120

So….it’s been a bit of time since I last wrote. This morning as I was reading it was Psalm 7, and one verse in particular that caught my attention.

My shield is with God,

who saves the upright in heart. (ESV)

But then this verse drew me back to the rest of the psalm. In verse one David expresses his intention to take refuge in the Lord. He needs the Lord to save and rescue him. He is calling for the Lord to execute justice - and to judge him even as he judges the peoples. And then here he claims to be one upright in heart. That’s a bit hard to see at first because we have been reading all about David’s life…and it’s not the most exemplary. However, in a sense it is. We are all sinners. What David consistently demonstrates is repentance. Though verse 12 is more of an appeal to the wicked to repent, the principle remains that God calls people to repentance and he forgives those who do demonstrate repentance and faith.

Let’s be people quick to repent. Here is the Shorter Catechism on repentance:

Q. 87. What is repentance unto life?

A. Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavour after, new obedience.