Confession & Cleansing

The mark of Biblical maturity is to know what to do when you sin against God. The mark of the ignorant soul is that he knows not where to turn. The Bible reader and gospel lover knows were to go when he sins because he takes in this Psalm 51.

Psalm 51 is vital – for there is no other way to walk with God, than to maintain a brokenness over sin. (v17).
There is no sinless perfection this side of heaven.
Psalm 51 is vital because, while all do not sin like David, yet all need to deal with the sin within their hearts in this same way. If we do not learn about Biblical confession of sin then we cannot know the blessed life of the pure in heart.
It is the man or woman with cleans hands and a pure heart that shall ascend into the hill of the Lord. Psalm 24:4.

Nor do we boast that because of our justification through faith in Christ’s one death that we have nothing more to do to confess our sins before God.

No, No No. Grace does not give us licence to abound in sin. Because of the truth that, where sin abounds, grace shall all the more abound (Romans 5:20) does not make us sin with abandon to glorify the grace of God.
Read Romans 6:6-15. Sin, therefore, is a deep problem and to know how to confess it and seek cleansing from it is absolutely vital. Psalm 51 is our text book for a case study in the life of David, who stands out as God’s example of seeking and finding God’s mercy.