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PSALM 25<\/strong>  The second of the acrostic psalms, Psalm 25, emphasizes David\u2019s need for deliverance from his enemies in verses (1-3, 16-22) and for forgiveness from God (verses 4-15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 In you, Lord my God, I put my trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 I trust in you; do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame, but shame will come on those who are treacherous without cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 For the sake of your name, Lord, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 Who, then, are those who fear the Lord? He will instruct them in the ways they should choose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13 They will spend their days in prosperity, and their descendants will inherit the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14 The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15 My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only he will release my feet from the snare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16 Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17 Relieve the troubles of my heart and free me from my anguish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

18 Look on my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19 See how numerous are my enemies and how fiercely they hate me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20 Guard my life and rescue me; do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

21 May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord,is in you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

22 Deliver Israel, O God, from all their troubles!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECTIONS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I.       Prayers in Times of Trial (25:1-7);<\/p>\n\n\n\n

II.     Praise in Periods of Confidence (25:8-15);<\/p>\n\n\n\n

III.    Petition for Help in Trouble (25:16-22).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THEME<\/u><\/strong>: Praying for forgiveness after you sin and asking God to teach you to follow his ways. God\u2019s way are more about the kind of people he wants us to be than with what he wants us to do in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

QUESTIONS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens to those who trust in God?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What things does David ask God to do for him in this whole psalm?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does David say God does for a humble sinner ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens to those who fear (revere) God? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does David describe the character of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ADDITIONAL VERSES<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaiah 40:31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.explainingthebook.com\/psalm-25-commentary\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since this is an acrostic or alphabet psalm, we could kind of say that this psalm presents the \u201cA-B-Cs\u201d of Praying After You\u2019ve Sinned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aleph- So, first of all, after you\u2019ve sinned, Come to God to pray. Don\u2019t avoid him. This is what most people do. This is what Adam and Eve did. When you sin, draw near to God. You might feel unworthy, and you are unworthy. But God wants to lift you up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beth- (1st<\/sup> letter of second word) After you\u2019ve sinned, express your confidence in God \u2013 your trust in him. And then don\u2019t be ashamed to ask that God would remove the shame from you. Your sin may have given occasion for people who hate you. It is perfectly legitimate to ask that God prevent that from happening or stop that from happening once it\u2019s happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gimel- Now, it doesn\u2019t say \u201cthose who are sinless\u201d will never be ashamed. It says \u201cthose who wait on thee\u201d will not be ashamed. David is waiting on God for deliverance and help from the mess he\u2019s made for himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheth- David then asks that God would think of him not in terms of his own sin but rather in terms of God\u2019s loyal covenant love toward him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teth- David reminds himself of God\u2019s character. Because of God\u2019s character, he\u2019s confident that God will teach him how to move on from his failures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaph- David rejoices in the fact that God is good to those who obey him. Let\u2019s take a queue from Psalm 25. Pour out your complaint to the Lord, express your confidence in him, make your petitions known to him. And let the knowledge of your own sin lead you to forgive others who have hurt you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/bible.org\/seriespage\/psalm-25-seeking-god-hard-times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This psalm is acrostic. Each verse begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. This may have helped people memorize the psalms. James Boice suggests this psalm is a theme of learning, which fits with the alphabetical arrangement.  Acrostic psalms are often difficult to outline, because the content is guided more by the alphabetic arrangement than by a logical outline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1-God\u2019s children often face difficult, frightening circumstances. We can\u2019t be certain about David\u2019s circumstances in this psalm. Because of references to sins of his youth, he must have been older. Since his sin with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband led to the events of Absalom\u2019s revolt, it probably was written during that episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever been in a difficult trial and you knew that it was because of your sin? You wanted to cry to God for help, but were afraid because of your sin. Or, maybe your problems weren\u2019t due to deliberate sin, but rather because of immaturity or stupid decisions. Psalm 25 teaches us to seek God in the hard times, no matter why we\u2019re going through them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David has many enemies that hate him and want to kill him.\u00a0 He feels lonely and afflicted, and his troubles are growing worse, not better.\u00a0 His repeatedly asks God to teach him and seems to imply that he\u2019s confused in the midst of this mess. If David, who walked with God from his youth, was facing these kinds of trials, then none of us are exempt. Sometimes Christians\u00a0say, \u201cI\u2019ve been following God and trying to obey. Why am I experiencing all of these trials?\u201d Obeying God doesn\u2019t gives us a free pass from trials. Many of the most godly men and women in the Bible went through difficult trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2-Sometimes the difficult circumstances that we face are due to our own sins or shortcomings. David\u2019s guilt runs through this psalm.\u201cDo not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions.\u201d Apparently his troubles later in life dredged up the sins that he had committed in earlier years.\u00a0 The closer you draw near to God, the more hideous your past sins can appear. Some of the sins from my youth come back to haunt me.\u201c How could I have done those things? What was I thinking?\u201d Answer: \u201cI wasn\u2019t thinking!” Only God\u2019s grace kept me from doing things that could have had more serious consequences! I try not to dwell on those sins because they are now under the blood of Christ. But when they come to mind, they remind me of how corrupt my heart not only was, but still is because I\u2019m still susceptible to the same sins. Thank God that He sent His Son to bear my penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. God can bring trials into our lives so that we seek Him more fervently and recognize our dependence on Him. David\u00a0 didn\u2019t just shrug off his sins by thinking, \u201cWhat do you expect? I was just a teenager!\u201d He didn\u2019t compare himself to his enemies and say, \u201cI may have my faults, but these guys are evil!\u201d He didn\u2019t belittle his sins by saying, \u201cOkay, I was wrong to sleep with Bathsheba, but hey, I\u2019m just a red-blooded guy who likes women!\u201d or say, \u201cBeing the king is a tough job. So if I made some mistakes, I\u2019m only human!\u201d David\u2019s guilt drove him to confess and plead for pardon. He asks God to remember His compassion and loving-kindness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. When seeking God, look at and affirm God\u2019s character. We all need to remind ourselves of God\u2019s attributes. Look at all God\u2019s attributes in this psalm!\u00a0 David has gone public in affirming his trust in the Lord. If the Lord lets him down and David\u2019s enemies triumph over him, not only David\u2019s honor, but the Lord\u2019s honor, is at stake. Was he a fool to put trust in God? So David\u2019s argument is, \u201cLord, I\u2019m trusting in You. Don\u2019t let me be ashamed, because if I\u2019m ashamed, Your name is going to be dishonored.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter how difficult our trials, the Lord is able to deliver us from them, for His glory and for our good. The Bible is clear that God will not always miraculously heal us or get us out of all our problems. John the Baptist, James, and Paul (2 Tim. 4:18) <\/em>were martyred.\u00a0 Many of God\u2019s faithful witnesses have died young through sickness or accidents.\u00a0 His way of getting the gospel to the Waodani tribe in Ecuador resulted in the murder of five young missionaries. We don\u2019t always understand God\u2019s ways or know why God allows something to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The times we live in are so troubled.\u00a0 People losing their jobs, the stock market falling, natural catastrophes, and uncertainty in what the future holds.\u00a0 In today\u2019s economy there is little to hope for the future, however God is never caught off guard because he knows the future. And you are not the only one that has felt that there is no hope.\u00a0 Even Bible heroes had times when they wanted to give up like Job, Moses, Jonah, Jeremiah, and Elijah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biblical definition of hope is not a \u201chope\u201d so but a \u201cknow\u201d so.\u00a0 There is nothing on this earth more certain than our hope in God.\u00a0 He will never leave us nor will He ever forsake us.\u00a0 He is our anchor in the present and in the future. His plans are not intended to harm you but to prosper you. This doesn\u2019t mean that He plans to make you rich, but He does plan for you to have a secure future. Your stockbroker or financial adviser might have plans for you too, but they don\u2019t know the future and don\u2019t have the ability to bring it about. God is planning our future better than anyone else can, even ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will never be ashamed for placing our hope in Him because He has the power to deliver us out of all our troubles.\u00a0 Our 401K doesn\u2019t have such power.\u00a0 God owns the whole earth, He owns every animal in the forest, and He is the owner of the cattle on a thousand hills as Psalm 50:10-11 says, \u201cfor every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine.\u201d We are finite creatures and can\u2019t look beyond today but God has planned every step we take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SONG<\/u><\/strong>:  Show Me Your Ways, Standing on the Promises of God<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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