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Scriptures:
Psalm 51:7-15 Soak me in your laundry and I’ll come out clean,
scrub me and I’ll have a snow-white life.
Tune me in to foot-tapping songs,
set these once-broken bones to dancing.
Don’t look too close for blemishes,
give me a clean bill of health.
God, make a fresh start in me,
shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.
Don’t throw me out with the trash,
or fail to breathe holiness in me.
Bring me back from gray exile,
put a fresh wind in my sails!
Give me a job teaching rebels your ways
so the lost can find their way home.
Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God,
and I’ll sing anthems to your life-giving ways.
Unbutton my lips, dear God;
I’ll let loose with your praise.
16-17 Going through the motions doesn’t please you,
a flawless performance is nothing to you.
I learned God-worship
when my pride was shattered.
Heart-shattered lives ready for love
don’t for a moment escape God’s notice.
18-19 Make Zion the place you delight in,
repair Jerusalem’s broken-down walls.
Then you’ll get real worship from us,
acts of worship small and large,
Including all the bulls
they can heave onto your altar!
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John Wesley’s Notes-Commentary:Psalm 51:10-19
Verse 10
[10] Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Create — Work in me an holy frame of heart, whereby my inward filth may be purged away.
Right — Heb. firm or constant, that my resolution may be fixed and unmoveable.
Spirit — Temper or disposition of soul.
Verse 12
[12] Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
The joy — The comfortable sense of thy saving grace, promised and vouchsafed to me, both for my present and everlasting salvation.
Free — Or, ingenuous, or liberal, or princely. Which he seems to oppose to his own base and illiberal and disingenuous and servile spirit, which he had discovered in his wicked practices: a spirit, which may free me from the bondage of sin, and enable me chearfully to run the way of God's precepts.
Verse 14
[14] Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Thy righteousness — Thy clemency and goodness.
Verse 15
[15] O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
My lips — Which are shut with shame and grief.
Verse 16
[16] For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
Not sacrifice — This is not to be understood absolutely, with respect to David's crimes, which were not to be expiated by any sacrifice.
Verse 17
[17] The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
A broken spirit — This is of more value than many sacrifices.
Verse 18
[18] Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Good pleasure — Thy free and rich mercy.
Build — Perfect the walls and buildings of that city, and especially let the temple be built, notwithstanding my sins.
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Monday, August 18, 2014
Sermon theme: The Prayer That Changes the World - Forgiveness
Continue your paraphrase of The Lord’s Prayer up through “trespass against us”.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Sermon theme: The Prayer That Changes the World - Forgiveness
What prevents you from forgiving yourself, others, institutions or God?
Pray for willingness and a softening of your heart.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Sermon theme: The Prayer That Changes the World - Forgiveness
Tell your story and name the hurt or journal about it.
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Sermon theme: The Prayer That Changes the World - Forgiveness
Describe something you have in common with someone who has hurt you?
What is your shared humanity?
Friday, August 22, 2014
Sermon theme: The Prayer That Changes the World - Forgiveness
Pray about forgiving someone and if ready, forgive.
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Sermon theme: The Prayer That Changes the World - Forgiveness
Tell someone that you are sorry.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Sermon theme: The Prayer That Changes the World - Forgiveness
Walk the prayer labyrinth behind the Music Center.
Begin with telling your story; naming the hurt; granting forgiveness and then renewing or releasing the relationship.
See what blessings God may have for you.
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First United Methodist Church
2111 Camino del Rio South
San Diego, CA 92108
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