May 30

TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE

Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Psalms 51:12
 
​Memorize this Verse: (Cover the verse text and using just the first letters of each word try to recite the entire passage.)
​12. R U M T J O T S A U M W T F S

Notes on verse:

As abominable; as a vessel in which he had no pleasure. With indignation and wrath; as one that is angry with another, cannot bear him in his sight, but bids him be gone from him. Nothing is more desirable to a child of God than the presence of God. And nothing gives him more sensible pain than his absence. And even to be deprived of or denied the means of enjoying his presence, the word and ordinances, makes them very uneasy. To be utterly, and for ever deprived of it, is the case of the damned in hell, and is the punishment of loss they sustain. And, on the other hand, the happiness of the saints in heaven is to enjoy it without interruption. The people of God are never cast away from his favor, or out of his heart’s love. But they may for a while be without his gracious presence, or not see his face. Nor have the light of his countenance, nor sensible communion with him, which is here despised.

“And take not thy Holy Spirit from me”: Or “the Spirit of thine holiness”; the third Person in the Trinity. So called, not because this epithet of “holy” is peculiar to him; for it is used also of the Father, and of the Son (John 17:11). But because he is equally holy with them, and is the author of holiness in his people. Which is therefore called the sanctification of the Spirit (1 Peter 1:2). And without whom David knew that purity and holiness of heart and spirit he had desired could not be renewed and increased in him. And therefore, abhors the taking of him away; which shows that he was not as yet removed from him, notwithstanding his fall into great sins. And his sense of sin, and confession of it, and his fervent application for pardoning grace, and purity of heart, abundantly prove it. The Spirit of God is a gift of his, which is everlasting. And where he once is as a spirit of regeneration and sanctification, he ever abides. His external gifts may be taken away; but internal grace is an incorruptible seed, and always continues. By sin, the Spirit of God may be grieved, so as to withdraw his gracious influences, and his powerful operations may not be felt. And this is what is here abhorred.

This is a plea for God to forgive him, one more time. It appears that David is fearful that he has lost the salvation that he once had in the Lord. When God forgives, there is total restoration.

TODAY'S BIBLE READING

May 30

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