Fugitive Fools

Summary

King David is not interested in being one of these fugitive fools. He longed to come clean with God. “I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me,” he writes (51:3). Our sin is ever before us, whether it is the lobbing of a cherry bomb at firefighters (Howard Mechanic’s crime) or losing of one’s temper with a friend, or cheating on a spouse, or fudging our taxes, or transgressing a speed limit. Sin is sin, and it won’t go away even if we take it underground. David knew this, and in our text, he turns himself in and comes clean before God. “Create in me a clean heart,” he prays, “and put a new and right spirit within me” (v. 10).