”Lord, for the sake of your name, forgive my iniquity, for it is immense.“
Psalms 25:11 CSB
This line really jumped out to me, “for the sake of your name”. I feel like forgiveness is primarily benefiting me (the sinner) and costing God, yet this verse the proclaims the opposite.
Often times when scripture is talking about “the name” of God it is describing His reputation, or the understanding of who He is. Accomplishing this action of forgiveness is building, in a positive way, our knowledge of God and His character. According to this verse it is amplifying Gods reputation because David’s sins are so big and impact so many people…which is in every other case terrible!
But many times God is the opposite of what we imagine. In this case He is greater because of His ability to forgive more. The depth of His riches are demonstrated to be even more vast. And His compassion is immeasurably more than imagined and proven to be so by every act of forgiveness.
Lord, help me to meditate on the greatness of who you are! Allow me to release you from the mental box I have placed you within so that I might see your majesty! Give me a bigger view of You!!!
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