In Psalms, chapter fifty-one, verse four, David did not deny that his sin was not against others but preeminently against God and His Word, as in Second Samuel twelve, verses nine through ten. “Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from thine house. Because thou hast despised me and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.”
The prophet Nathan declared that David, committing adultery, murder, and deceit, was guilty of despising “the commandment of the Lord” and God Himself, as in verse ten. Despise means to treat contemptuously, to scorn, or to make little account. Therefore, in his actions, David acknowledged God to be of little account and unworthy of love and devotion. David could not see spiritually what he was doing when committing these sinful acts because he was living in them. Sin is dark and spiritually blind in a way that it will make a sinner who is active in it seem at the moment that they are not doing anything wrong and may have reasons or excuses for their immoral activity. However, Ephesians two, verses two through three, explain, “Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”
Against thee have I sinned is the theme title with the theme verse that goes on to acknowledge that the conscience of a godly person should know better because they were exposed to the law? However, during sin, the flesh wars against the spirit, which many give in to, and like darkness, get lost in it until when it is over, they realize their error. Sin is known as “missing the mark.” This means the believer knew where the mark was and what the word said. However, the sinner allows the flesh to lead and make the inner person forget or not pay attention to the word, forget the mark, and miss it, causing sin.