‘Deliver Me From…Guilt’

‘Deliver Me From . . . Guilt’

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

Psalm 51:14-15

For the Child of God, fellowship and worship are integrally related. David desired to worship, but his spiritual condition was a hinderance to his worship. Hence He says, ‘Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation:  and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.’  When the heart is free from guilt, the spirit is free to worship. As long as guilt blankets our soul, we are inhibited in our worship. David longs for liberation from guilt so that he may again enjoy freedom in worship. It is even so with us. When we have done wrong and are feeling the weight of our guilt, and our distance from Christ, we find that worship is, at best a dry, barren experience. By the work of His Free Spirit, applying to us the cleansing Blood of Christ, we can experience deliverance from ‘the guilt of bloodshed,’ or whatever type of guilt it is. Liberty from that guilt will enable us to enjoy the richness of fellowship with Christ which we enjoyed in days gone by. Fellowship with Christ enables us to thrive even under the most adverse of human circumstances. Guilt inhibits us from thriving even in the best of human circumstances. Today, let us take stock of these things in order that we may right our affairs with God, and be free in our worship. We may not need this knowledge today, but we may need it soon. As the old divines used to say, ‘keep short accounts with God.’ This will enable us to sing aloud of His righteousness.

Our Good and Forgiving God,
we praise You that the Blood of Christ cleanses us from sin.
We rejoice that the Holy Spirit, by His Power,
delivers us from the guilt of that sin.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning