Day 128.  Reading Psalms 25, 29, 33, 36, and 39.

 

Read Today’s Psalms.  PRAY them, SING them, PRAISE GOD with them.

Psalm 25.

A glorious PRAYER-psalm.  

• To YOU, O LORD I lift up my soul. O my God, in You I trust.
• Make me to know Your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.
• Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation.
• Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, 
• Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to Your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of Your goodness, O LORD.
• Good and upright is the LORD; He instructs sinners in the way.
• He leads the humble in what is right and teaches the humble His way.
• For Your Name’s sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great.
• Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.
• Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me!  Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in You.
• May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for You.

Psalm 29.

A wonderful psalm of God’s MAJESTY!

• Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength
• Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.

(To “ascribe” means to “give the credit due.”)

Read through this hymn and see all it says about the “voice of the LORD.”

Psalm 33.

Another psalm of many ways and reasons to praise the LORD.

• Shout for joy in the LORD, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright.
• Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him!
• Our soul waits for the LORD;  He is our help and our shield. 
• For our heart is glad in Him, because we trust in His holy Name … we hope in You.

Psalm 36.

A psalm in praise of God’s Steadfast Love (mercy).

David first describes the wicked person in verses 1-4

• Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes.
• He flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out …
• The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit …
• He plots trouble while in his bed …

Then his thoughts and eyes turn to the loving, faithful, and righteous God.

• How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
• Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who who know you, and your righteousness, to the upright of heart.

Psalm 39.

A personal psalm, a lament looking at David’s heart, and to his “end.”

• I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; 
• O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am.
• Behold you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath!
• And now, O LORD, for what do I wait?  My hope is in you.

Then comes a time when he turns, confesses sin, and hopes in God.

• Deliver me from all my transgressions.
• Remove Your “stroke” from me; I am spent by the hostility of Your hand.
• When You discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath!
• Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not Your peace at my tears! 
• Look away from me, that I may smile again before I depart and am no more!

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• LORD, if You remembered the sins of my youth (and old age), if You marked down and kept track of all my iniquity, I could not stand! I would be consumed like that moth in a fire.  But there is forgiveness with You. I may endure a time of discipline, but I can smile again.  My HOPE is in You.