Let's start with Psalm 51 which you lead off with. Can you tell me what the context of this Psalm is? In other words, what prompted the Prophet David to say such things?
Psalm 51 is to the chief musician, for public performance, as a confession of David before the congregation, showing that he had truly repented for having gone in to Bathsheba.
For a year after adultery, David hadn't repented. It was when Nathan had told him, “You're he!” that the latter’s resistance was broken and he confessed his shame.
He was constrained, as he realized his act's impact more and more, to plead with God for God's mercy, and as for the strength which would let him devote his life to his shame's erasure.
David pleads for mercy. He confesses unworthiness and he clings to God as salvation. He notes that God erases shame only for God's own sake.
God alone can cleanse missionaries from their shame. Shame covers people polluting the heart and mind. God cleanses people of their shame through the Gospel.
God led David to approach God with such a petition. David's shame stood before him.
The curse attaching to shame's that humans can't erase it, that it rises up before them, even though God has forgiven.
God has David cling to God, turn to God for mercy. David, like all, was sinful from his conception, filled with humanity's corruption.
David thus confessed his shame. David knew that God desires truth in the inward parts, without deceit to mar the value of his confession.
David knew that God would give him wisdom, which has its start in God. The longing for wisdom's repentance's mark, and the prayer for this blessing's made by missionaries throughout their lives.
David’s prayer once his shame was erased was that he would be healed and so rejoice, that he would feel the relief following shame's removal. He wanted his shame gone.
A missionary must repeatedly cry for forgiveness, up to their death. The missionary having been created anew in conversion can trust their salvation and focus themself on serving God.
David had felt the pain of being excluded from God's mercy and feared a repetition of the experience. He didn't want to return to that year's condition, persist in his opposition to God and so be lost.
Every missionary prays to God to be kept against rejection of the Gospel and to destruction. God's salvation's the height of the missionary’s happiness, if God turns to them in grace.
God renewed David's life, worked sanctification in him. God inspired him to want to make known to shameful people what God had done for him in delivering him from his shame.
God could give faith to people through God's Word spoken ri them by David. Through his confession and instruction, God could give faith to others.
David wanted to be freed from his shame, which was an enemy trying to oppress him. God give him trust that God was the only one who could help and deliver in such straits.
David offered to sing of the righteousness given to him by God. He'd sing a praise song for the grace given him. He trusted that God wanted faith expressed in good works.
David trusted that God's sacrifices are a spirit that's crushed by the consciousness of one's shame. He says that God delights in a heart from which pride has been removed.
God favors God's elect. God will build the walls of God's Church, of God's people. God wouldn't let shameful leaders take faith from the heart of missionaries.
David was ready to lead the people to sacrifice ad thanksgiving for the mercy which he'd received.
A truly penitent person will offer to God the sacrifices of their heart, lips and hands, and God will take pleasure in such offerings, if only shame has first been removed.