Meditations in Psalms
“Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless, innocent of great transgression. May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.”
Psalms 19:13-14 NIV
There have always been many who found solace in the book of Psalms. It is beautiful and powerful at the same time. David who wrote most of the Psalms is so easy to relate with. He has his ups and downs just as we do. He had days of victory and days of defeat. The wonderful part of all this is that no matter what the day entails he always turns to the Lord.
On the day he wrote Psalms 19 he must have been feeling like I believe many of us feel. Here we see a man that is struggling with some inner sin. A battle that he knows he can not win. So he turns to the Lord, “Keep your servant”. Lord I can not do this without you so keep me from this sin. He knows that if sin is not brought under submission of the Lord it will control him. As he meditates on God and his cry for help he turns to the Lord and asks to be found, “pleasing”. Let us all turn to God and cry out that our lives will be found, “pleasing”. The Lord is our Redeemer.
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