Cleansed Once Again

Psalm 51
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones that you have broken rejoice.9 Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.11 Cast me not away from your presence,
and take not your Holy Spirit from me.12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and uphold me with a willing spirit.
One of the most devastating experiences in life is for the Christ follower to not only sin, but to retain that sin. It crushes one's spirit and Satan is quick to pounce on it in the hope of keeping you down. But a quick humble and contrite confession of that sin to God brings complete cleansing and restoration. 
The sin, that Hebrews 12 talks about, which is that weakest point in each person, is cleansed as well ...  Jesus died on the cross of Calvary for ALL our sins and the promise of God is that "if you confess your sins He is faithful to forgive us and to cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9) 
Having been cleansed once again, David says that he will have JOY.  And, I too have been cleansed and, now clean before God, I have uninterrupted fellowship with Him and my Joy is complete.  The sin is all of me and the cleansing is all of God.
There is an old hymn sung for generations which asks "Have you been to Jesus for that cleansing flood and been washed in the blood of the Lamb?"  Oh dear saint, do not retain your sin but quickly confess it and allow the love of God, in His Son, to completely and thoroughly cleanse you from the inside out.  He promises He will do it and Satan is a liar when he tries to convince you and me that we have sinned one time too many. 
Totally forgiven ... cleansed once again!