{"id":3111,"date":"2013-03-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/purge-me-with-hyssop-and-i-shall-be-clean-wash-me-and-i-shall-be-whiter-than-snow-psalm-517\/"},"modified":"2013-03-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T00:00:00","slug":"purge-me-with-hyssop-and-i-shall-be-clean-wash-me-and-i-shall-be-whiter-than-snow-psalm-517","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/purge-me-with-hyssop-and-i-shall-be-clean-wash-me-and-i-shall-be-whiter-than-snow-psalm-517","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPurge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow&#8221; (Psalm 51:7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was David&#8217;s prayer after committing adultery with Bathsheba. He wanted God&#8217;s forgiveness to extend to his experience, so that he felt clean again. It&#8217;s one thing to believe that God has forgiven, but another to experience that forgiveness. &#8220;Wash me&#8221; is an intimate and humble invitation. It admits one&#8217;s filthy condition and also one&#8217;s inability to get clean without help. Perhaps we fail to completely experience forgiveness because we&#8217;ve yet to admit both the depth of our sin and our total inadequacy at getting clean. Let us pray as David, &#8220;Wash me, Lord!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was David&#8217;s prayer after committing adultery with Bathsheba. He wanted God&#8217;s forgiveness to extend to his experience, so that he felt clean again. It&#8217;s one thing to believe that God has forgiven, but another to experience that forgiveness. &#8220;Wash me&#8221; is an intimate and humble invitation. It admits one&#8217;s filthy condition and also one&#8217;s inability to get clean without help. Perhaps we fail to completely experience forgiveness because we&#8217;ve yet to admit both the depth of our sin and our total inadequacy at getting clean. Let us pray as David, &#8220;Wash me, Lord!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1286],"scripture-chapter":[1384],"oyb_day":[1594],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3111","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-psalms","scripture-chapter-1384","oyb_day-march-8"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}