God is good, all the time. And all the time… God is GOOD! I think this is David’s sentiment here.

But take note here that only those who “call upon Him” are the ones who receive forgiveness and mercy. And what does it actually mean to “call upon” the Lord? It’s as simple as saying, “Lord, help! I need your forgiveness and mercy!”. After all, we have this eternal promises from God in Hebrews 4:

In Matthew 18:21-35, we find an eternal promise of judgment upon unmerciful, unforgiving believers. Here’s an excerpt:

“Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’ And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him. So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”

Jesus’ lesson is about a servant who was in debt to His master to the point of bankruptcy. The master was about to collect and it meant he would lose everything. But the servant begs the master for mercy and the master erases the servants massive debt. The servant in this parable is you and I. Our debts are the many sins we have committed against God and others. We can’t ever do enough to remove our sins and escape the penalty of death on our own. But when we come to Jesus and ask forgiveness, He immediately forgives us (wipes away our debt), restores us (gives us a perfect credit score), and gives us grace and the Holy Spirit (money in the bank). He wants us to prosper, spiritually speaking.

But what happens next in the parable is unexpected. The servant who received extravagant mercy from his master turned around and dealt cruelly with someone you owed him a few hundred dollars. This could be someone who has sinned against in the slightest compared the mountain of sin God forgave us of. How easy it is to hold others in unforgiveness when they sin against us just a little bit, but how much we ask God to keep forgiving us. How often did Jesus say to forgive others? Once? Seven times? No, He told us to forgive seventy times seven. Not literally “490 times and that’s it!”, but figuratively as if to say “be merciful and don’t stop forgiving one another!”

Can you see yourself as the first servant, who’s debt (of sin) was incomprehensible? If we’re not careful, we can forget just how much we’ve been forgiven by our Heavenly Father. Therefore, forgive freely and frequently, just as He has forgiven you.

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King David understood the blessing and peace of being forgiven by the Lord. Here is an excerpt from Psalm 32:

“Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality was turned into the drought of summer.
Selah. I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah” (Psalms 32:1-5)

In David’s time, the only way to receive atonement for sins was to sacrifice lambs and other animals, sprinkling the blood on the people and on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant. The blood of those lambs pointed to the efficacious blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus, shed on the cross to atone for the sins of the whole world. But in order for your sin to be forgiven, you must cover or hide yourself in the blood of Jesus by confessing, repenting of your sins and asking for His forgiveness. And when you confess, Jesus is quick to forgive you because the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses you from all unrighteousness.

The problem is when we wait and keep “silent” about our sin, like David did for a short time. He was miserable. Only when he confessed to the Lord did he find forgiveness and a renewal of joy! But don’t stop there. Don’t just confess you sin. If you are a Christian, God has given you the power to overcome the power of sin. You can be free! Just trust God, talk to Him regularly, and read His Word. Remember what Jesus said to the woman caught in adultery? He was merciful, but He also said “Go and sin no more.”

Don’t wait another minute. Confess you sins to the Lord. Ask Him to forgive you and cleanse you. After all, forgiveness by the blood of Jesus is one of God’s eternal promises.