Psalm 32

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Psalm 32:1-11
A psalm of David.
1 Oh, what joy for those whose rebellion is forgiven, whose sin is put out of sight!
2 Yes, what joy for those whose record the LORD has cleared of sin, whose lives are lived in complete honesty!
3 When I refused to confess my sin, I was weak and miserable, and I groaned all day long.
4 Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat.
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5 Finally, I confessed all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide them. I said to myself, "I will confess my rebellion to the LORD." And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.
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6 Therefore, let all the godly confess their rebellion to you while there is time, that they may not drown in the floodwaters of judgment.
7 For you are my hiding place; you protect me from trouble. You surround me with songs of victory.
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8 The LORD says, "I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you.
9 Do not be like a senseless horse or mule that needs a bit and bridle to keep it under control."
10 Many sorrows come to the wicked, but unfailing love surrounds those who trust the LORD.
11 So rejoice in the LORD and be glad, all you who obey him! Shout for joy, all you whose hearts are pure!
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~ Lena’s Journalin’~
I was thinking today. I obviously need to increase my love, my God kind of unconditional love, the kind of love that extends love to those who hurt me, seemingly on purpose. The kind of love that gives even though it knows a thief is about to come and steal again. I need an increase there, to have no grudge over being taken from, to still give further, hoping to affect love on that one who does not seem to really know what they are doing when they hurt me, when they hurt the people in their world. Their taking from others is their cry for love. I want to really mean it and say, “Father, forgive them for they do not realize what they are doing or have done.”
As I read this, I see the pathway to that place is finding myself before God in my own sin and unwillingness to be exposed to that behavior over and over again. In repentance and acknowledgement of holding the gavel over offenders I’ll find that love and be free in that love I look for.
It is simple isn’t it? Yet it seems so backwards, backwards to the natural mind who tries to figure God out.
He is unfathomable!
Lord, forgive me for trying to go up another way, and please help me to live here, beginning today.
Forgive me Father, for I have sinned!


Daily Recital Verses -
Psalms 118:24 This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.

Prov 17:22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person's strength.