“YOUR HOLY SPIRIT!”

 Psalm 51:10-12                    (ESV)

    “[10] Create in me a clean heart, O GOD,

        and RENEW a right spirit within me. 

    [11] Cast me not away from YOUR PRESENCE,

        and take not “YOUR HOLY SPIRIT” from me. 

    [12] Restore to me the joy of YOUR salvation,

        and uphold me with a willing spirit.”

The more I learn about Scripture, the MORE I discover that I am illiterate about the DEPTHS of the HOLY WORD!  I have written about these verses at least five or six times since I began this journey in November 2011.  GOD continues to use HIS WORD to transform me into a vessel that is more like HIM.  

The author of this Psalm was none other than King David, a “man after GOD’s OWN HEART”!!  But King David had his weaknesses, similar to every person who ever lived!  The caption over these Bible verses says “To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.”  A “man after GOD’s OWN HEART” must have been embarrassed to have his sinful deeds (including the killing of Uriah the Hittite) plastered above his admission to GOD???  But whenever the 51st Chapter of Psalms is viewed, it shows the “brokenness” of GOD’s servant, something that we all need to experience more often than we care to admit!!

“YOUR HOLY SPIRIT” is thought by some to have been “released” on Pentecost (Acts 2)!  But King David wrote around 3,000 years ago (1,000 years before JESUS!) begging GOD NOT TO take “YOUR HOLY SPIRIT” from me!  “YOUR HOLY SPIRIT” was evident in CREATION (Genesis 1:2), so HE has been A PART of the TRINITY for ETERNITY PAST!  HE will be A PART of ETERNITY FUTURE as well!

King David, a man after GOD’S OWN HEART, prayed “Cast me not away from YOUR PRESENCE, and take not “YOUR HOLY SPIRIT” from me”.  If King David experienced “YOUR HOLY SPIRIT” while he lived on “this world”, surely “YOUR HOLY SPIRIT” was here for him, and “YOUR HOLY SPIRIT” is here for us!!!