Having an experience of the joy of salvation is something unique. Words can’t explain what happens to the being in the soul or spirit. It is an amazing, graceful moment one has to go through if one has to understand. It is beyond human comprehension. I wonder if there are words to explain the feeling at all. 

 

In the course of time, sometimes, due to our backsliding or going back to past way of life, we might loose the joy. But God who gave us the joy of salvation can restore that back for us, if we truly desire and sincerely ask of him. David is making such a prayer after his so-called sin. 

 

Psalm 51 is one of the most beautiful in the entire Bible. It’s an expression of the contrite heart after realizing the fallenness, or yielding to the temptation. In our case it can be of any kind; however, together with David if we can cry out to God and express our sorrow with tears or not. God knows our heart. He will definitely restore us the joy of His salvation. 

 

And he goes further: 

And sustain me with a willing spirit—yes, it’s not enough that He restores but to remain in that state of joy of salvation, we need to have sustenance in a willing spirit, a spirit that obeys, the spirit that is ready to offer God what He asks of us, a spirit that cooperates with him, a spirit that totally submits and surrenders to the will of God. Only then, joy will remain with us forever.

 

Then Jesus said these things: that you may have my joy and that full joy will abide in You. May we ask God of that joy of salvation and of that willing spirit to be developed in us with the help of the Holy Spirit. 

 

Loving Father, we need more of the joy of Your salvation. Kindly restore  in us that. Let Your Spirit help us sustain with the willing spirit. In Jesus’ Most Powerful Name, Amen.