Isn't it nice to know that God doesn't expect us to be perfect? We have been justified through Christ. Christ is my covering. That means that instead of God seeing all of my faults, He sees Christ instead.
Lately I have hated the person that I have become so I opened up my Bible and landed on Romans 5. It talks about how Christ died for me while I was still a sinner. He didn't wait for me to get my act together. His grace justifies me before God even when I have screwed up and now I am reconciled to God. What a blessing!
From Romans, the Holy Spirit took me to Psalm 32 which says "Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered" and "Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity." He was verifying in my heart what I already knew in my head. It also talked about the reason I was feeling so broken: "For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away...For day and night your hand was heavy upon me." But there is a remedy for brokenness: "I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin."
But David left no question as to what would happen after I was forgiven: "I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you." God isn't going to let me sink back into my sin; He is going to counsel me and lift me up.
