Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me. Psalm 25:5 NLT Psalm 25 As I copied the Psalm today I had three impressions. The first is grace. I was taken aback by how loving, gracious, forgiving and helpful God was in the eyes of David. The second was that David was concerned about his sin. He talks about it a lot, and all of his sin: past youthful sin and present sin too. Lastly I noticed a preoccupation with problems, enemies and depression (a negative perspective). I am going to explore all three and see if I come out with a unified central theme. My first question is possibly obvious for you. If God is so gracious, so loving and so kind, why does David have such a concern for his sin? Further, if the rescuing presence of God is with him, why does David have all these problems all the time? This is a common cry of David and it persists throughout the Psalms. Isn’t David chosen? Isn’t he anointed? Hasn’t he been rescued and does...
Viewing all the Psalms as Messianic, I will read the Psalms consecutively for 150 days and try to write a outline for teaching with thoughts about the day's Psalm's unique contribution to the revelation of Jesus Christ our Messiah the Word of God and King of kings, the eternal Son of David.