Read chapter 51
This is a psalm of David that he prayed after Nathan the prophet called him out of his sexual sin with Bathsheba and murder of her husband Uriah (see 2 Samuels 12). David says that these sinful acts of his were against God and him only. That's not necessarily how we would see it, thinking it was against Bathsheba and Uriah that he sinned. Yet David realizes that all sin is ultimately against God, somewhere we're not trusting or believing in Him and His perfect ways. David was to uphold the Lord's covenant and didn't in these sins, breaking that first and hurting others along the way. It's interesting to compare David's sin and response with Saul's sin and response. In our eyes David's sin was far worse committing adultery and murder yet Saul's was impatience (1 Samuel 13). David's response to the Lord's prophet was repentance whereas Saul didn't think he did anything wrong. God forgave David because He could see that he clung to and desired truth in the inward parts. "God did not wait for David to pull himself up by his own bootstraps in order to make himself acceptable to Him. Instead He acted in the hidden part of David to make him to know wisdom" (precepts.wordpress.org). This psalm, while it speaks specifically to David and his situation, is the example of believers of God when they have sinned. It shows the mercy and grace of God towards every child of His who has sinned, be it ever so terribly. What sin is weighing you down that you need to repent of to the Lord? Do you desire God's truth in the depths of your soul? How can you see your sin as against God, not man, that your not trusting or believing of Him?
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