If we are going to obtain true spiritual contentment, we must learn to deal honestly with our sins in humble confession and repentance as God draws us to Him.
If David had been praying instead of playing, he would have avoided his sin with Bathsheba. He succeeded in covering it up from most folks for about a year.
While living with unconfessed sin, he was a different man. The soldier lost his strength; the singer lost his song; the saint lost his satisfaction, and it brought sorrow into his family.
There are benefits to spiritual contentment. The Lord has all the resources we need to escape the dangers at hand, 1 Cor. 10:13.
The saints of God are not exempt from troubles, but they are kept in them and strengthened by them.
They enjoy the best this world has to offer and have hope in the next world as well. They are literally “compassed about with songs of deliverance.”
Psalm 32:7 Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Ideas for this unprofitable blog are taken from The Sermon Notebook—Biblical resources for preachers and teacher of the word of God. They allow these sermons to be used as the Lord leads but not for profit without their permission
