Psalm 19:12-13 Secret sins and Presumptuous sins

Who can understand his errors?

Cleanse me from secret faults.

Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins.

Let them not have dominion over me.

Then shall I be blameless,

And I shall be innocent of great transgressions.

Psalm 19:12-13 NKJV

Someone may ask: "Why I do impulse shop?

Another person may ask: "Why do I jump to conclusions about others and get angry before I have the facts?

Others ask: "Why am I eating this whole bag of chips? I am not even hungry.

There are many things we do in life that are inexplicable to us. The errors of our life flow from secret faults and wounds in our life. The Word of God addresses even the deepest things of our life and brings the cleansing of Jesus Christ.

Presumptuous, or willful, sins are those of entitlement. We sneer at our Prime Minister and Finance Minister for cheating on ethics with regards to undeclared business interests, or perks and free vacations but every single one of us reading this today has a sense of entitlement in some area. The Spirit applies the Word of God to root out of us what is contrary to the way of Christ our King.

Sin wants to dominate us. The evil practices of our life and the entitlements we think are ours, well we are familiar with these and we don't want to get rid of them. But if Christ is King, as we claim, there cannot be two people enthroned in our hearts. Either we serve Christ and lay down our secret faults and presumptuous sins or we add to all our sins this: the hypocrisy of merely pretending to serve Him all the while we are bowing to our own tyrannical ego.

Your Law and Your Word are perfect O LORD of Power. As the Psalmist declares, Your Word has the power to convert the soul. Reveal my hidden fault lines and the secret sources of my sin and break down the idol of presumptions.Spirit of God steer the course of my life so that I will follow Christ in word and in action. Amen.