05/11/2026 – “Today’s Mission – Is there an area in your heart that is broken? Run into Messiah’s arms and let Him heal you today.” / “Be gracious to me, God, according to your abundant compassion, blot out my rebellion.” Psalm 51:1 / Psalm 51 -A Prayer for Restoration – Commentary with a pathway to fellowship around it… (see below)
The Rabbis’ Messiah From Galilee
Monday, May 11, 2026
Growing up, Galilee didn’t seem like a real place to me or a Jewish place. Yet, in the rabbinic writings it says, “The light will shoot up between heaven and earth and rest in the land of Galilee. For there was the beginning of Israel’s exile and there – Messiah will reveal Himself in that light. He will return to His place and then the whole world will see that King Messiah revealed Himself in the land of Galilee.” Wow! That’s exactly where Messiah Yeshua revealed Himself; the place that was first judged by God, the land of the broken. His grace came there first. When you think of Messiah on the shores of Galilee, remember the people there were broken. God wants to heal the broken. When you mess up and feel completely unworthy as if you can’t even approach God, when you want to run the other way and hide; run to Him. He’s the Messiah of Galilee, the One whose heart is for the fallen and the broken. You’ll find the blessings of His love, grace, healing and miracles in the arms of the Galilean, the Messiah.
From Message #731 – The Days Of Messiah
Scripture: Psalm 51:1
TODAY’S MISSION – Is there an area in your heart that has been broken? Run into Messiah’s arms and let Him heal you today.
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Read Psalm 51. The commentary in “The Apologetics Study Bible” is rich for this chapter so I am going to share it in its entirety. It is almost as long as Chapter 51 itself, but bears a rich elucidation for me, so how can I not pass it on with the hope that brothers and sisters read it, study it, pray it.
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I am going to start out of order with 51:10, because it speaks to us today, not that the context of David’s confession of his sin against Uriah and Bathsheba doesn’t bear fruit for us today as well:
“51:10 The heart is the spiritual nature of a person, the center of the will, the capacity of making choices. The prayer is for God to re-create (renew, as the parallelism in the verse shows) that spiritual side, lest he continue to make wrong choices. Forgiveness may not be enough to solve the problem; there must be a complete spiritual renewal. The forgiven worshiper is not the old person cleaned up; he is a new person (Ezekiel 18:31; 1 Corinthians 5:17).”
Now, back to verse order commentary:
“51:4. David had sinned against Uriah and Bathsheba, but the confession acknowledged the sin is, first of all, against God; the expression “You alone” simply intensifies that thought.
51:5. David was not saying that his birth was illegitimate, or that his parents sinned when they performed the sexual act at his conception. He was acknowledging that there never was a time when he was without sin. He was born in the state of sin, or rebellion against God, which is common to all humanity until all humanity until reconciliation with God occurs. David’s statement is a poetic expression of the biblical teaching about this pervasive, inborn or “original” sin (see Romans 3:23).
51:8. Because of the seriousness of his sin, David could not ego into the sanctuary to join God’s praises. Here he asked for forgiveness so that he could do that, with his petition implied: “[Tell me I am forgiven so that I may] hear joy and gladness.”
51:11. At Pentecost the risen and ascended Christ sent His Holy Spirit (Acts 2: 32-33) to abide with every believer. But before the incarnation and resurrection of the Son of God, the Spirit appears to function differently in the life of the people of God. The Spirit “came upon” or “indwell” people responsible for administering the rule of God: prophets, priests, and kings. The presence of God’s Spirit set them apart and enabled them to lead (see Isaiah 61:1), but His indwelling was not always permanent as it is in the New Testament. Thus, when Saul sinned against the Lord and was rejected from kingship, the Spirit left him ( ). David the King probably had this possibility in mind. His prayer is a typical OT petition that he not be removed from service because of his sin. Christians would not express this thought in the same way; since Jesus Christ lives and reigns. His Holy Spirit indwells them permanently as the seal of eternal life. Still New Testament believers can pray the same thing David meant: “Do not remove me from service.” (On the Holy Spirit in the OT, see Judges 3:10; 1 Samuel 18:12.)
51:12 David was not praying for his salvation to be restored; he was praying that the joy of that deliverance be restored. Psalm 32 describes the kind of spiritual depression that results from unforgiven sin. (*A – note below)
51:15 The request “Lord, open my lips” is a metonymy, or the use of one aspect of an action or thing to represent the whole. The full request would say: “Forgive me so that I can open my mouth and praise.”
51: 16-17 – The psalm is not repudiating sacrifice; the rites of the altar were the heart of Israel’s corporate worship. Because of the nature of David’s sins, there was no sin offering he could bring – these offerings were for sins of ignorance. Without a sin offering, he could not offer the atoning whole burnt offering. And he certainly could not offer a peace offering because his peace with God had been compromised. He could only plead for mercy with a broken spirit — that is, a will that had been stripped of all rebellion and pride.
51:18-19.- If the expression “build the walls of Jerusalem” is understood figuratively, the walls stand for the moral defense of the city and the worshipping nation it represent (the NT also uses words like “edify” in a figurative or spiritual sense). The speaker here was a king, and immorality at the highest level of government weakens a nation’s defensive posture.”
(*A): – I have highlighted just a few amongst the many of the commentary that I believe to be rich fellowship opportunities for spiritual growth discussion. Again, from the context of the “ACTS” prayer acronym, a suggested prayer order of : Adoration; Confession; Thanksgiving; Supplication : Don’t leave out the “C”! (see Psalm 32 under 51:12 commentary) I also believe that within our churches, we should have a community confessional prayer before the communion / eucharist sacrament.
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Thoughts? / Reflections? / Questions for Group Discussion?
Soli Deo Gloria!