Come You Who Are Weary

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love, according to your unfailing love, according to your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me for my sin. For I know my transgressions and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight. So you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you. Psalms 51:1-13

King David wrote this Psalm after the prophet Nathan had come to point out David's affair with Bathsheba.(2 Samuel 12) David was a man after God's own heart. God loved David deeply. David was greatly favored and yet through a series of bad decisions and choices, he is now a murder, liar and adulterer. He is in a dark place, looking at all his sin and begging God to forgive him. He asks that God forgives his sin, cleans his heart and resorts to him the joy of God's salvation. It seems like sometimes we think we are so deep in the pit of sin that there is no way God could ever forgive us, but that isn't true if we have a willing and contrite heart. If we confess our sins and are truly sorry, God will forgive us. He will blot it out and we will have a renewed heart. God longs for us to walk with Him each day. 

If you are feeling weary, burdened or cast down by sin, simply turn to the father. He says it best in Mathew 11:28-30.

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light"