#DailyDevotion Do You Want To Be A Blessed Adam?
Psalm 32 How blessed you are if your wrongs are forgiven and your sins are covered. 2How blessed you are if the LORD doesn’t count sins against you, and if there is no deception in your spirit.
Paul quotes this in Romans 4, “6So David calls the man blessed whom God counts righteous apart from what he does: 7”Blessed are you if your wrongs are forgiven and your sins are covered. 8Blessed are you if the Lord doesn’t count sins against you.’” Blessed. Such is a the description of those who the LORD has had mercy on. There are several words for sin and forgiveness here. The first is “pesha.” It is rebellion, a tearing away from God. Here is is “nasa.” It is sent away, carried away, much like the Greek “aphiemi.” To send away invokes the image of the scapegoat sacrifice of the Law, on whom the High Priest lays the sins of people on and is sent into the wilderness.
The second word for sin is “chataah.” This is where we miss the mark God has set up for us as His standard for morality. While we may not act out a sin, if we think about it, we still miss the mark. Here the word of forgiveness is “casah.” Here God covers our sin so He can no longer see it. It’s like it is never there, like it never happened. It invokes the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant which is sprinkled with the blood so the people’s sins are atoned for.
The third word for sin here is “avon.” It means perversity. Perversity is when we take what is good from God and use it for means not appointed. Sex is a place where we see this fairly clearly. It is meant to be between a husband and a wife. Anything outside of that is perverse. The description of forgiveness here is the LORD does not impute it towards us. He does not count it against us.
To such a one forgiven, there is no deception in their spirit. That means, we are not trying to hide some sin, offense, or transgression from God so we can keep on doing it. To the best of our ability, if we know we have sin, we confess it to God. We admit our faults. I find it interesting, while our translation says, “Blessed are you,” it actually says, “Blessed is ‘adam,’” i.e. the man. Why is that interesting? Well what did Adam do when he sinned? He hid. He blamed his wife for his sin. We are blessed if we don’t follow his course of action. Instead of hiding our sins from God our Father, we confess them. We don’t make excuses for them. We don’t blame others. We take responsibility for them, admit them, and confess them to our Father. We probably should confess them to another Christian who we trust, i.e. your pastor. It could still be any other Christian. That way we don’t deceive ourselves in thinking nobody else knows because we told them to God, Whom we do not see. When we do this God our Father sends our sins away from us. He covers them up. He no longer imputes them to us.
Why? Because Jesus Christ has borne our sins and carried them outside the city on the cross. Jesus has taken His blood poured out from His suffering and death and poured it upon the mercy seat of God in His heavenly temple. For Jesus Christ’s sake, He no longer imputes our sins to us because He has imputed them to the only-begotten Son, our Savior Jesus Christ.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for blessing us by sending our sins away, covering them up with the blood of Christ and imputing them to Jesus instead of us so we may know Your mercy, kindness, stead-fast love, compassion and forgiveness. May we never try to keep anything hidden from You so we may know Your blessings. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.