Welcome to this Daily PBJ devotional. Read Exodus 7, Job 24, and Psalms 24-26. This devotional is about Psalm 25. To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. In you, my God, I trust. Do not let me be put to shame. Do not let my enemies exalt over me. Surely none who wait for you will be put to shame, but those who engage in treachery without cause will be disgraced. Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation. All day long I wait for you. Remember, O Lord, your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts. Remember me according to your loving devotion, because of your goodness, O Lord. Good and upright is the Lord, therefore he shows sinners the way. He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way. All the Lord's ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees. For the sake of your name, O Lord, forgive my iniquity, for it is great. Who is the man who fears the Lord? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him. His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land. The Lord confides in those who fear him, and reveals his covenant to them. My eyes are always on the Lord, for he will free my feet from the mash. Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted. the troubles of my heart increase. Free me from my distress, consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins. Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with vicious hatred. 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, because I wait for you. Redeem Israel, O God, from all its distress. This is God's Word. Psalm 25 began in verses one through three with David reminding God that David was trusting in him. David then asked God to make his trust pay off by not letting David be put to shame. That's verse 2. But David wanted more than a tit-for-tat relationship with God. He didn't want to do right just so he would be well treated by God. Instead, he wanted to serve God so that he could know God. That is why he prayed in verse four, show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. This expresses a desire for God himself to know where God is, if you will, knowing what he loves and what he hates, how he works and why he does what he does. Those are God's ways and God's paths. Where would God do that teaching of his paths? Verse 5 says this, guide me in your truth and teach me for you are God my Savior. David wanted to know God, to soak up his truth because my hope is in you all day long as we saw in verse 5c. It was David's love for God, his desire to know God and live in close fellowship with God that motivated his godly life. not his desire to succeed. In other words, David didn't live a godly life because he wanted to succeed and hoped that God would bless him. He lived a godly life so that he could know God and be more like him. David also didn't hide the fact that he was a fallen person. In verse 7, he pleaded for God to give him full pardon, complete forgiveness for his sins. He wrote, and these are the words of the NIV in verse 7, but it says, Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways. According to your love, remember me, for you, Lord, are good. This, too, is an indication of a person who is walking with God. The better you know God in His ways, the more apparent your sin becomes to yourself. But as our Savior, as verse 5 puts it, we know that God will be faithful and forgive the sins we confess to Him. When we are indifferent to our sins, unconcerned about knowing God's truth and His ways, and only care about God's blessings, we're not walking with God. These are clear signs that our spiritual life is drifting rather than growing. Fortunately, God is gracious to sinners. Verses 8-11 describe what God does for sinners when we humble ourselves before Him. It says in verse 8 that he instructs us, that's verse 8b. He guides us, that's verse 9a. He teaches us his way, according to verse 9b. When we fear God, as verses 12 and 14 say, he blesses us with knowing him, with forgiving our sins, with watching over us for our moral good, and watches over us for delivering us from our troubles, as we saw in verse 22. How's your relationship with God? Are you walking with Him, desiring to know Him and follow His ways? Or is your spiritual life adrift? As a believer in Christ, you have the assurance that God's love and salvation are yours forever. But the blessing of knowing God comes from following Him and walking with Him daily. Take time right now to assess your walk with God. 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