Our congregation gave our members and friends a booklet at the beginning of the year with passages for every day of the year -- "Year with the Bible." That got renamed in my mind to Year of the Bible because we used something by that name a couple of years ago and I am getting old and confusing things. Just to add laziness to the picture I sometimes refer to it as YOB.
Our church has a Facebook group where I post comments 3 or so times a week about a reading. So why not get double duty
Today's YOB - Psalm 26
October 2, 2009
Psalm 26
This is another psalm of David. He claims he walked with integrity and has always trusted God. He has been faithful. Hmm, David couldn't have always said this. He didn't always walk with integrity and faithfulness. There is the whole Bathsheba cycle and some serious mistakes as a father. Perhaps he wrote this psalm before those incidents. Or perhaps he wrote them afterward and really understands how God forgiveness works. Once you have confessed and received God's grace and practiced true repentance -- asked God for helping in fixing the mess and following God's guidance, then you really truly are forgiven. No need to beat yourself up again. Now you can stand before God and I say, "I am faithful."
And an intersection on the YOB reading at the reading for the day, October 2, on my 5 psalms.
ReplyDeleteSee psalm 32 on the issue of God's forgiveness. Good stuff.