Saturday, March 19, 2005
Psalm 51:12 Turn me about to the rejoicing of Your deliverance and with the Spirit given willingly, refresh me.
TURN ME ABOUT
One of the few things I learned from physics class years ago is that an object in motion tends to stay in motion and an object at rest tends to stay at rest. In other words, you throw an object and it will continue to go until some other force acts upon it to stop it or turn it around. Throw something in the house and it won't stop until it hits the wall. Throw something outside and it will keep going until gravity pulls it down.
But start down the road of sin and it takes more than a wall of wood or the force of gravity to stop us. Head down the road of misery and it takes something greater than that misery to turn us around.
Tears of sorrow over sin flow until the glad tidings of God's deliverance act upon the broken heart and stop the flow of tears. David looks to the Lord and asks Him to turn him about; to act upon him and return him to rejoicing; to return him to joy and happiness through the deliverance that is found in Jesus Christ. Christ and Christ alone can turn us from sin and the sorrow to which it leads us. He returns us. He restores us by His holy suffering and death in that assurance that all is forgiven and we have even now received the joy of salvation. 