It's All About God's Perspective

"God, in your grace, have mercy on me; in your great compassion, blot out my crimes. Wash me completely from my guilt and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my crimes, my sin confronts me all the time. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil from your perspective; so that you are right in accusing me and justified in passing sentence." (Complete Jewish Bible)

Anyone who knows or has heard the story of David and Bathsheba can easily say that what David did was wrong by taking another man's wife and having the husband killed. But it is wrong based on whose perspective? David was the king— He could make all the rules and laws of the land. As king, he could say what is right and what is wrong according to his perspective.

But the thing is despite his actions, David had a heart that loved God. (And yes it is possible to love God and still do jacked up stuff.) But when he was confronted with his disobedience, the full impact of what he had done not just to Uriah and Bathsheba, but what he had done to and against God fell hard on him.

The fact that it did is made even more evident in 2nd Samuel 12:9. Where God says to him, " 'So why have you shown such contempt for the word of Adonai and done what I see as evil? You murdered Uriyah the Hitti with the sword and took his wife as your own wife; you put him to death with the sword of the people of `Amon. "

So when David cries out in Psalms 51 "against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil from YOUR PERSPECTIVE…" He realizes that even though he is king, he is not the final authority. You may want to say that "I have never done anything wrong as David did." But by whose perspective are you saying that? Who are you saying is the final authority on your right and wrong actions. It is only God's perspective that can shine the light of truth on ALL of our actions and deeds. Left up to us, what is right today will be wrong tomorrow, and what is wrong today will be right tomorrow.

So beloved, allow your heart to see all that you say and do from God's perspective. It is here that we will know that all of our motives are pure and that our actions are right. All because we now see things from God's perspective.

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