I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Psalm 102:6 KJV
In the Bible, both the pelican and the owl are considered as unclean.
The fact that the psalmist is saying he is like them in Psalm 102:6, he is expressing how he feels standing before God… dirty, unclean, unworthy, undeserving, insignificant, a filthy sinner… like many of us do at times,
We may not like the feeling the way the psalmist described, but sin is often (if not always) the cause of us feeling that way. Even so, it is this sorrow of heart which leads us to repent.
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
2 Corinthians 7:10 KJV
That is to say, until we see our uncleanness, we cannot fully appreciate what it took to reconcile us.
It is easy to say “God showed us mercy through the blood of Christ” but understand that justice for OUR sins was also achieved by the blood of Jesus on the cross.
While that blood allows us to come before Him with boldness, there was a price paid… and we are humbled knowing that Jesus died to achieve this.
