December 31, 2025
The Year in Review - Part 3
Psalm 32:5
12/31/2025
5 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. (ESV)
We are counting down the top truths you have heard in the
Moments of Meditation broadcast in 2025. First on the list, the
Bible is the Word of God. Next, the Law, one of the two great
teachings of the Bible, accuses us of sin so that we may hear the
Gospel.
King David, the author of many of the Psalms, did some
amazingly bad things. He committed adultery with the wife of one
of his officers, then had the officer killed in battle so to
cover up the sin. Yet the second child born to Bathsheba, the
wife of Uriah the Hittite, was Solomon, a direct ancestor of
Jesus.
David tried to keep quiet about this sin, to cover up
Bathsheba's shame, and to go on with life. He wrote Psalm 32
after Nathan the prophet rightly accused him of his sin. Rather
than striking David dead, God forgave him. The consequences were
brutal, the death of the infant son born to Bathsheba, but there
is redemption.
He wrote: ``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.''
The reason the Bible was written was not to accuse us of
sin, but to show us that our loving, gracious, and merciful God
sent His Son into the flesh to bear our sins and be our Savior.
That is the Gospel. Forgiveness is a gift, given for the sake of
Christ Jesus, something we do not and cannot earn.
May our Lord give us the comfort of the Gospel, especially
when we are overwhelmed with the enormity of our sin. Amen.