These are David's last words. Not the very last words he spoke but almost so. Among the very last things of which he speaks, he makes reference to the regrets of his life. They had long since been dealt with. The Lord had blessed him greatly and restored him after sinning. The unrest in his household was a continuing sore punishment, but he is consoled by eternal membership of the household of his Master, Jesus, in which he was assured there would be no disharmony in the ages to come.
Nobody knows our regrets better than we do ourselves. But we do well to name them as we prepare for death. There are the ones which are like scars: they have long since been healed, causing no pain, but they leave their mark. There are others which still hurt; loves which were not to be; ideals which could not be attained; careers which could not be pursued -- and the very thought reminds us that we have never yet fully come to terms with them. This is the time when we must. We must hand them over lock, stock and barrel to the Saviour and acknowledge that in what has happened to us He has been good, has done us nothing but good and that He knows better than we do what is good for our souls.
Even more importantly, if there are regrets for matters which have never been forgiven we must let the blood of Jesus cover these sins now. Perhaps there was something we should have put right with someone before they died and it became too late, and we didn't. Perhaps people are alive whom we have hurt but we cannot reach them now in our predicament. Bring them all before the Lord. If they are still alive plead one last blessing on their souls to serve in lieu of the contact we cannot now make. Let us ask that we might be finally forgiven despite our negligence and intransigence.
As with David, so with us. Though there is much that is not as we would have wished, yet God has accepted us unconditionally in His beloved Son, Jesus. In Him we have an everlasting covenant. The blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin and obtains for us a righteousness as eternal as the life of our risen Saviour. 'If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.' He knows that the blood of Jesus was shed for every believer and has availed to remove that stain of sin. Our fears as believers in Jesus are groundless.
Nothing can change the purpose of God toward the believer. That covenant is in His blood. It is ordered -- that is planned, executed and implemented by arrangement in the eternal, hidden counsels of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit -- and it is sure. It cannot be overthrown. Though the mountains, hills and the very heavens be permanently banished, and Satan consigned to hell, yet that covenant stands sure. It is all our salvation, all our desire, as it was with David.