And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances...
You forget, the righteous fall 7 times, and get up. It's a process.
still sounds like it is God who does the Work in making someone righteous in His sight
because really they are not, and never can be
and that must first be understood
Psalm 51
"Blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
And cleanse me from my sin."
"For I acknowledge my transgressions, (only 7 transgressions? 70x7 transgressions? more?)
And my sin
is always before me. (oooooh!)
Against You, You only, have I sinned,
And done
this evil in Your sight—
That You may be found just when You speak,
And blameless when You judge."
"Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.
Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts,
And in the hidden
part You will make me to know wisdom." (He understands he is a hopeless Sinner?)
"Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." (washed with the Law commands? lips? or is blood what God said would atone for the Soul?)
"Hide Your face from my sins, (remember them no more? like will be realized in the promises of the future?)
And blot out all my iniquities."
"Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from Your presence, (because that is what he actually deserves?)
And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
And uphold me
by Your generous Spirit." (not David's spirit, or will, or doing?)