let's go to the word of the Lord today
I'd like to share with you about psalm
32 um and yeah let's just read read a
couple of verses in psalm 32 and dive in
lesson is the one whose transgression is
forgiven whose sin is covered blessed
that is the man against whom the lower
counts no iniquity and in whose spirit
there is no deceit for when I kept
silent my bones washed away wasted away
through my groaning all day long for day
and I your hand was heavy upon me my
strength was right up as by the heat of
summer I acknowledged my sin to you and
I did not cover my iniquity I said I
will confess my transgressions to the
Lord and you forgave the iniquity of my
sin therefore let everyone who is godly
offer prayer to you at a time when you
may be found surely in the rush of Great
Waters they shall not reach him you are
a hiding place for me you preserve me
from trouble used to round me with
shouts of deliverance I will instruct
you and teach you in the way you should
go I will counsel you with my eye upon
you be not like a horse or mule with
that understanding which must be curbed
with bit and brittle or it will not stay
near you many are the stars of the
wicked but the steadfast love of
surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord
be glad in the Lord and rejoice or
righteous and shout for joy all you
upright in heart its brain father we
come before you once again to pray that
you continue to bless our time here
today that you open our hearts and our
minds to hear a new word from you God
that you minister to our spirits to our
souls that we walk away from this place
meditating in your word and that
throughout the week we'll be able to
remember these things and try to put
them into practice
in your name we pray amen all right so
psalm 32 as many of us know the book of
psalms is the psalm that we go to in
times of distress in our lives for many
years it has supplied believers you know
throughout you know centuries some of
their best bible loving passages right
you know we find themes in the psalms
that deal with you know a duration
towards God or themes that talk about
sorrow over sin and dependence of God
you know in the midst of the
circumstances that life may bring we
also see themes of you know the struggle
and the battle between trusting God and
fearing also walking with God even when
the when the way seems dark and
basically the Book of Psalms is a great
collection of prayers that express the
heart and soul of humanity I think by
default when we're down when we're sad
you know the first thing might be to
just go find a song that will encourage
us that will speak to our lives because
some of us really connect with the
people who were writing these things and
many of us know that you know King David
was one of those writers who wrote most
of them also Solomon and and even Moses
has a few something here that were
written by him this particular psalm
psalm 32 it's one of seven films that
are considered to be penitential Psalms
or Psalms of confession and basically
these are Psalms that are you know hymns
by which you know members of a
congregation would confess their own
sins enabling them to appeal appeal to
God's own gracious character as their
ground for their cried of forgiveness
now if we look closely at psalm 32 we
will notice that yes there element in
there abouts in confession and
forgiveness but more than that I believe
some 32 is a is a Thanksgiving him it is
King David pouring out his soul thanking
the Lord for his incredible mercy for
him
and in his life and before we dig in a
little deeper into this Psalm I want us
to take I want us to go on a journey to
the past through the Old Testament and
try to figure out what was going on and
David's mine at the time he wrote this
song there had been in a series of
events that had taken place and I like
for us to you know walk through that
today and then come back to psalm 32 and
see what the Lord may have for us this
time it is a liturgical dialogue between
God and him in front of others who were
present and it was basically an
invitation you know from David to also
confess our sins you know he was
inviting people who were in the
congregation to confess their sins
before the Lord now the first passage I
like us I would like for us to look at
it's in second samuel chapter 11 verse
we're going to start verse 1 2nd samuel
chapter 11 verse 1 and we're going to
hear about something that David did that
most of you are familiar with but I says
what like to read this is just to kind
of get in the spirit so it says in the
spring of the year the time when Kings
go out to battle David sent Joe up and
his servants with him and all israel and
they ravaged the ammonites and beseech
raba but David remained in Jerusalem it
happened late one afternoon when David
arose from his couch and was walking on
the roof of the King's house that he saw
from the roof a woman bathing and the
woman was very beautiful and David sent
and inquire about the woman and one set
it's not this Bathsheba the daughter of
ilium the wife of Uriah the heat teeth
ty is that hit it that way he tight
there you go he typed English is my
second language this is Bear Butte me
so David sent messengers and took her
and she came to him and he lay with her
now she had been purifying herself from
her uncleanness then she returned to her
house and the woman conceived and she
sent and told David I am pregnant you
see what's happening here they were
supposed to be in battle and David had
stay behind well everybody was out there
you know ready to fight he stayed behind
he see these woman he inquired about her
he knew he was married to another guy
but you know that's what was conveyed to
him but still you know she took her to
bed and a couple of weeks later he finds
out she's pregnant now let's see what
happens so David sent word to Joe up
send me Uriah the Hittite he tied right
and jobs then you write to david when
Uriah came to him David asked how job
was doing and how the people were doing
and how the war was going then David
fate to Uriah go down to your house and
wash your feet and Uriah went out of the
king's house and there follow him a
present from the king but Uriah slept at
the door of the King's house with all
the servants of his lure and dick negot
down to his house when they told David
Uriah dinner go down to his house David
said Uriah have you not come from a
journey why did you not go down to your
house Uriah say to David the ark and
Israel and Judah dwell in booths and my
lower jaw and the servants of my lord
are camping in the open field shall I
then go to my house to eat and drink and
to let lie with my wife as you live and
as your soul lives I will not do this
thing you see what's happening David had
an alternative reason to send him home
to send for him he said to himself ok so
this woman is pregnant the logical thing
is for me to go you know call her
husband from the battle have him go to
his house you know after a few days of
nothing his wife is gonna rest as me in
a good mood you know they're gonna sleep
together and when this thing comes up
you know it'll be quite normal right you
know
yeah it's it's it's his it's not mine
whatever but you rise like no like how
can I do such a thing like we're
fighting we're a batter like my mind is
not in that I can only imagine what
David was thinking when this until I'm
bad after he had planned all these
things but you see are you following
what David is doing you know he knew he
wasn't supposed to do something he did
it he realized he did it wrong you know
God is sort of like confronting him in a
way and then he's trying to cover it up
I think we do that sometimes you know we
we know the things that we're not
supposed to be doing and we still try to
go out of a way to cover our sin but
look what David then sent to your eye
okay remain here today also and tomorrow
i will send you back so Uriah remain in
Jerusalem that day and the net and David
invited him and he ate in his presence
and drank he went out of he went out to
lie on his couch with the servants of
his Lord but he did not go down to his
house in the morning David wrote a
letter to Joe up as thing Hampton sent
it by the hand of Uriah in the letter he
wrote set Uriah in the forefront of the
hardest fighting and then draw back from
him that he may be struck down and die
this is David going to the dark side
he's like okay I'm gonna take this
matter into my own hands I'm just gonna
kill this man and then take his wife for
myself this is david the guy whom we
know was supposed to be the closest to
God right like he had a unique
relationship with God you know the Bible
says that so this is what happens um
David did this um and you Ryan went to
battle he died David took his wife and
moved on with his life until the Prophet
Nathan confronted him about what he had
done you see sometimes we try to go on
with our lives we know we we are in sin
we try to hide it you know and it might
not be a parent for everyone around us
but the Lord knows and he sends people
into our
to speak into our lives and to and to
help get us to turn from our sin I love
the conversation between Nathan and
David and if you go with me to saw 2 2nd
samuel chapter 12 just a few verses more
listen to what what the Bible says and i
love the way God sort of confronted him
so chapter 12 verse 1 and the Lord sent
Nathan to David he came to him and said
to him there were two men in a certain
city the one rich and the other poor the
rich man had very many flocks and herds
but the poor man had nothing but one
little ewee lamp which he had bought and
he brought it up and it grew up with him
and with his children it used to eat of
his morsel and drink from his cup and
lightens arms and it was like a daughter
to him now there came a traveler to the
rich man and he was unwilling to take
one of his own flock or her to prepare
for the guests who had come to him but
he took the poorest man's lamb and
prepare it for the man who had come to
him then David's anger was greatly
kindle against the man and he said to
Nathan as the Lord lives the man who has
done this deserves to die and he shall
restore the lamb fourfold because he did
this thing and because he had no pity so
david has been a righteous here Ryan
applying the law and justice and this is
what needs to happen and look what Mason
says to David Nathan said to David you
are the man thus says the Lord the God
of Israel i anointed you king over
Israel and I deliver you out of the hand
of Saul he's going back into history to
remind David about his own journey and I
gave you your masters house and your
masters wives into your arms and give
you the house of Israel and of Judah and
if this were too little
i would add you to i would add to you as
much more why have you despised the word
of the lord to do what is evil in his
sight you have struck down Uriah the
Hittite with the sword and have taken
his wife to be your wife and have killed
him with the sword of the ammonites I
can only imagine what David must have
been like at this moment he had nowhere
to go nowhere to hide this was God
Himself speaking to him directly through
Nathan telling him I know what you've
been you what you've been up to how much
longer are you keep our eunuch eep this
for as a result of this encounter with
Nathan and everything he had been doing
then David comes and write some 81 sound
51 and sound 32 they go together you
know so let's see what what David wrote
in sound 51 so you get a sense of like
the language that he's using as he has
been confronted by Nathan Psalm 51 says
have mercy on me O God according to your
steadfast love according to your
abundant mercy blood out my
transgressions wash me thoroughly from
my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin
for I know my transgressions and my sin
is ever before me against you you only
have I sinned and done what is evil in
your sight so that you may be justified
in your words and blameless in your
judgment behold I was brought forth in
iniquity and in sin did my mother
conceived me behold you delight in truth
and in the inward being and you teach me
wisdom in the secret heart purge me with
hyssop and I shall be clean wash me and
I shall be whiter than snow let me hear
joy and gladness let the bones that you
have broken rejoice hide your face from
my sins and blow out my transcript all
my iniquities
creating me a clean heart O God and
renew a right spirit within me cast me
not away from your presence and take not
your Holy Spirit from me restore me to
the joy of your salvation and uphold me
with and with a willing spirit then I
will teach transgressors your ways and
sinners will return to you deliver me
from blood guiltiness oh god oh god my
salvation and my tongue will sing a lot
of your righteousness Lord opened my
lips and my mouth will declare your
praise for you will not delight in
sacrifice or I would give it you will
not be pleased with a burnt offering the
sacrifices of God are broken spirit
broken and contrite heart O God you will
not despise David was broken he was
aware of a sin and the only thing he
could do was to turn back to Christ and
repentance and this is what he did now
once he experienced the forgiveness of
the Lord he wrote Psalm 32 after having
experienced the kind of forgiveness that
we don't deserve he was very aware that
he did he deserved to die according to
his own standards he deserved to die
this is what he told Nathan he was like
that Batman should be killed and he
realized that the standards of God at
that time were different and he was just
humbled humbled and thankful for the the
everlasting grace and mercy of God and
listen to what he says in psalm 32 which
is our solemn versus wanted to bless it
is the one whose transgression is
forgiven whose sin is covered blessed is
the man against whom dolor counts no
iniquity and in whose spirit there is no
deceit you know we're out in the open
there's no deceit in my spirit I'm not
trying to lie to anybody I am blessed
because of this verses 1 and 2 they
state the theme and highlight the reason
of David's thankfulness David is so
profoundly thankful
because he's been forgiven this verses
describe him as a blessed man one who is
truly happy and truly blessed one who is
thankful because his sins have been
forgiven what does the word bless it
mean usually you know we understand the
word blessing you know means truly happy
indescribably happy it's an exuberant
proclamation of the happy state of those
who experience God's forgiveness now
blessings are not necessarily linked to
the health and wealth but to the
assurance that an experience that one
lives out under God's guardship and that
we're under his faithful care the
problem with this is that today we
attribute blessings to our material
possessions every time you hear the word
blessing today it's linked to a
scholarship one may have gotten to go to
school or I got the dream job or I got a
raise I have a wonderful family I have
good health you know it's it's you know
our church is thriving like these are
the things that we attribute blessings
do and don't get me wrong I think those
things are good those things are
blessings and those things come from God
but the true meaning of blessing goes
beyond all of that you know the true
meaning of blessing is associated with
the realization that we have been
forgiven from our sins even though we
did not deserve to be forgiven you know
it goes beyond that and I think this is
why poor people are also blessed people
who may not have a house or a car or a
steady job or whatever like if you if
you travel you know overseas and you
might not even have to go overseas you
know here in the city of Boston you may
encounter people who may not have as
much as you or me and yet inwardly
they're truly blessed they're happy you
know this is this is this is the meaning
of blessing it's being happy extremely
happy content you know with their lives
because they understand that they're
lessings are not linked to material
possessions and when we do this we're
walking in the Lord's way why because
sometimes when we cling to our material
possessions we run the risk of
disappointment our financial situation
can change overnight you can either lose
your job or you can either lose your
health there are very wealthy people in
our society that don't have good health
and they can enjoy all that stuff can
they still consider themselves blessing
blessed if they've known the true God
the God of David you know they can't
consume this themselves blessed
regardless of their health regardless of
their status and this is you know why we
consider ourselves blessed at the cord
being blessed deals with spiritual
things one quick look to the New
Testament shows us that you know the one
translation in the ESV there are a
hundred twelve references to the words
blessed blessing or blessed and none of
which you know connect blessings to
material prosperity I'm just going to
read this very quickly you don't have to
look for them but just just bear with me
and listen to this the Beatitudes in
Matthew listen to what it says blessed
are the poor in spirit blessed are those
who mourn blessed are those who are
persecuted for righteousness' sake
blessed are you when others revalue and
persecute you this isn't Matthew let's
see what what's in Luke blessed that
rather are those who hear the word of
God and keep it in Romans 47 blessed are
those whose lawless deeds are forgiven
this is paul in romans and he's quoting
guess what he's quoting psalm 32 you see
the language blessed are those who
lawless deeds are forgiven blessed is he
whose transgression is forgiven same
thing in James blessed is the man who
remains steadfast under trial and in
Revelation blessed are the dead who
would love who die in the Lord from now
on blessed are those who are invited to
the marriage supper of the Lamb there is
no hint of material prosperity or
perfect synchronous in any of these
Testament references on the contrary
blessing here is typically connected to
either trial or you know the spiritual
blessings of being joined with Christ
through faith so why then do we only
consider ourselves bless when we have
our materials needs taking care of being
bless refers to those receiving God's
favors regardless of their circumstances
in David's case his joy he's
thankfulness did not come from from from
his wealth he was he was the king of the
land he had everything he could have
ever wanted he had all the money all the
property all the women he didn't need
anything and yet when he writes about
being blessed he's talking about the
fact that he had been forgiven from his
sin that's what he writes about as the
king of the nation he was not fully
satisfied in his earthly blessings his
satisfaction his inward joy and true
happiness his peace of mind came knowing
that the God who created him loved him
so much and was willing to forgive his
evil deeds right what he had done you
know with Bathsheba and Uriah the Bible
here is telling us that in the midst of
older circumstances we do can be blessed
and we too can be thankful this is how
the poor experience got the broken in
spirit in verse 1 David is saying that
blessed is the one who transgression is
forgiven and whose sin is covered
transgression basically means it's an
act that goes against the law or rule of
conduct it's an offense it's something
bad that you do that you you know you're
not supposed to do some 32 it's also
cited in the in the New Testament as we
saw Paul was talking about this now when
Paul says in Romans 4 blessed are those
who lawless deeps are forgiven and her
soon discover he is introducing David as
another exam
of righteousness by faith he's
introducing he's he saying that David's
righteousness was not based on his works
because if he had been based on his work
he would have been dead he saying no his
righteousness is through his face
through the faith that he decided to
place in Christ he said like he said
lighting that we too can be justified by
our faith in Christ regardless of our
past regardless of whatever we may be
doing it's not by our good deeds that we
have access to this grace it's by our
faith in Christ just like David doesn't
matter what you do you know the law is
willing to forgive so true blessing is
found in the forgiveness of sin and the
good thing about this is that God wants
to forgive us he does from the beginning
his character you know has been a
gracious and merciful Father willing to
forgive his people in Exodus when Moses
you know went back a second time you
know to get you know the the
commandments listen to what Moses said
about God you know after after he had
come down he saw the people were doing
the evil you know in front of God he
broke the commandments and all those
things he went back up back up just to
speak with God and get a new set of
tables and listen to what he said the
Lord the Lord a God merciful and
gracious slow to anger and abounding in
steadfast love and faithfulness keeping
steps at love steadfast love for
thousands forgiving iniquity and
transgression of sin this is the
character of god this is moses back in
Exodus talking about God you know and
he's introducing God as a loving God
who's willing to forgive David consider
himself blessed because he knew the Lord
had forgiven him now God forgiveness is
something that we're not supposed to
take lightly but unfortunately we do we
don't give it a second thought to the
fact that we've been forgiven and we go
about our lives as if it's not a big
deal and I think some people call this
cheap grace when we don't realize what
God has done for us
we've gotten used to the fact that we've
been forgiven and we no longer feel like
we need to thank the Lord for that every
time we thank the Lord for our blessings
we're thanking him God thank you because
you heal my daughter thank you because
you gave me that race thank you big and
those things are great and that's okay
and we should thank God for those things
all I'm saying here is let's not forget
to thank the Lord for His forgiveness in
our lives he forgives us on a daily
basis on a weekly basis on a monthly
basis on a yearly basis so add that to
your prayer list you know and as you're
thanking the Lord just thinking again to
God thank you i'm not taking for granted
that you died for me on the cross that
you continue to forgive me regardless of
my flaws you know just acts just throw
that in there now listen to this i want
to use a passage from the New Testament
to kind of illustrate what our attitude
to worst you know this realization that
we've been forgiven should be like we
can go to Luke chapter 7 verse 36 350
Luke chapter 7 first 33 250 and I'm just
going to read this really really quick a
sinful woman is forgiven one of the
Pharisees asked him to eat with him and
he went into the Pharisees house and
reclined at the table this is Jesus who
had been invited to have dinner with
someone and behold a woman of the city
who was a sinner when she learned that
he was reclining when she learned that
he was reclining at a table in the
Pharisees house brought an alabaster
flask of anointment and standing behind
him at his feet weeping she began to wet
his feet and with her tears and 2 to wet
his feet with her tears and wiped them
with her hair of her head and kiss his
feed and anointed them with the ointment
now when the Pharisees who had invited
him saw this
he said to himself if this man were a
prophet he would have known who and what
sort of woman this is who is touching
him for she is a center and Jesus
answering to him answering said to him
Simon I have something to say to you and
he answer say teacher and I love just
the way that Jesus goes about
confronting people he said a certain
moneylender had two doctors 105 hundred
denarii and the other 50 when they could
not paid he cancelled the depth of both
now which of them will love him more
Simon answered the one I suppose for
whom he cancelled the larger depth
logical right then turning towards the
woman he said to Simon do you see this
woman I enter your house you gave me no
water for my feet but she has wet my
feet with her tears and wiped them with
her hair you gave me no kiss but from
the time I came and she has not ceased
to kiss my feet you did not anoint my
head with oil but she has anointed my
feet with ointment therefore I tell you
her sins which are many are forgiven for
she loved much but he who is forgiven
little loves little and he said to her
your sins are forgiven
why do you think about this I can only
imagine this guy's reaction as Jesus was
telling him that and I think I think the
attitude of this woman illustrates what
our response ought to be towards cries
after realizing how much we've been
forgiven but the problem is that we
choose to identify with with this
Pharisee guy we're good we're blessed
you know we're not as thinner as this
person you know like we don't need to
like do all these things and yet you
know God rejoices in the ones of humble
spirit who bow down in worship who bowed
down and thank him for for the greatest
gift of his forgiveness I think this is
what David was trying to get at you know
when he was reciting this Psalm in front
of the congregation he was saying
blessed is he who transgressions are
being forgiving he was he's highlighting
the fact that our blessings are linked
to to this great thing that God did on
the cross for us to to being forgiven by
God so um problem is that when we get
used to our to to the fact that we've
been forgiven and we don't think much
about it you know I think we're
deceiving ourselves and I think this is
what what he was saying in verse 1 even
when he was saying blessed is the man
against whom the Lord counselor equity
and in whose spirit there is no deceit
defeat deals with not what what am I
trying to say deceit deals with ignoring
you know a reality that is present you
know lying to ourselves and trying to
cover a situation in front of others
keeping silence which is what he says in
verse 3 he says when I kept silent my
bones wasted away through my groaning
all day long david knew what he had done
his people didn't know but got new yet
he kept silent and then he says when I
kept silent referring to hiding his
and keeping him to himself he says that
his bones waste away through his
groaning all day long and here we see
David after this in verse 5
acknowledging his sin he says I
acknowledged my sin to you and you did
not cover my iniquity I said I will
confess my transgressions to the Lord
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin
David realizing what he had done he
decided I need to confess my sin to God
it's not just enough for me to be aware
of this I'm gonna confess my sin my sin
to God now why would he feel the need to
confess his sin to God when God is
omniscient you know when he knows it all
that will God knows you know it was like
you know he knows but I still need to
confess what happens when we confess our
sins we resolved to walk with God in
integrity and and very David
acknowledged a sin and he there's three
things that happen when we when we
confess our sins to God when Davy was
confessing his sin to God he was saying
I'm agreeing to turn from my sins he was
saying I am ensuring that i will not
conceal them from you or from myself i'm
recognizing my tendency to sin and i
would turn away from my sin this is what
he was doing what he was confessing his
sin before God now as Christians
sometimes we don't understand how
confession works because we feel so
guilty and that you know we always try
to confess our sins over and over and
over wondering you know if we have
forgotten something there are some
people who live in a constant state of
confessing confessing confessing there's
other Christians that believe that God
forgives them when they confessed but if
they die with unconfessed and they would
be forever lost maybe these people don't
understand that God wants to forget us
and he allowed his son to die for us so
that he could offer us pardon when we
come
we when we come to Christ he forgives
all the sins that we have committed we
don't need to confess all of our sins
from our past over and over again we
don't need to fear that God will reject
us if we don't keep our lives perfectly
clean I believe that we need to confess
our sins not because failure to do so
will make us lose our salvation of
because failure to acknowledge our sin
is it's it's it's a bad thing I think we
confess our sins because we need to do
because confessing our sins keeps us
honest before God and allows us to
experience fellowship with him it keeps
the communication channel open you know
because it is a two-way a two-way thing
so I I believe that our relationship
with God is secure and for that I am
thankful and and for that you know I
need to continue to work on my
relationship with God and come before
him and keep him posted on my doings and
my failings and you know it's it's it's
it's a relationship thing now psalm 32
look what happens in verses in verse by
i know i acknowledge my sink to you and
i did not cover my iniquity and i said i
will confess my transgressions to the
lord and you forgave the iniquity of my
sin therefore let everyone who is godly
offered prayer to you at a time where
you might be found he's telling here God
is oh it's it's willing and open to hear
us out we should come to him in prayer
we should seek to continue to
communicate with him certainly in the
rest of Great Waters they shall not
reach him you are hiding praise for me
you preserve me from trouble you
surround me with shouts of deliverance
um I will instruct you and teach you in
the way you should go I will counsel you
with my eye upon you be not like a horse
or a mule without understanding which
must be curbed with bit and brittle
or it will not stay near you here you
know maybe verse 9 verse 9 refers to the
fact of deceiving ourselves trying to be
like a horse on you who don't doesn't
understand the need to come to cart to
Christ and confess our sins the need to
be aware of our of our state not so that
we can live a life of guilt this is not
a thing would great what David is is is
referring to here but that that we might
be thankful realizing that God is
willing to forgive anything in verse 10
he says many other stores of the wicked
but the staff at love surrounds the one
who trusts in the lord and he wraps up
the psalm in verse 11 saying inviting
people to be glad in the Lord and to
rejoice we are aware of our sins but we
are not to be consumed by it we are not
to be you know guilty and morning all
the time about it we're supposed to be
glad and rejoice and the Lord knowing
that he has for giving us and he is
willing to forgive us no matter what we
do and he says shout for joy all you
upright in heart psalm 32 is the
fulfillment of a vow that David made to
God in Psalm 51 when he said verse 13 I
will teach the transgressors your ways
and sinners will return to you deliver
me from my blood guiltiness of God of my
salvation and my tongue will sing aloud
of your righteousness Oh Laura open my
lips and my mouth will declare your
praise in South 51 when he said this he
was telling God because you have
forgiven me because you'd be so thankful
to me I will vow to you to go out and
tell everyone what about what you have
done I'm going to tell others about your
mercy and your loving kindness and your
forgiveness and as a result of this
thing he writes
sound 31 and he share me with people
about his joy after being forgiven I
think as Christians who understand this
that we have been forgiven and who
understand everything we've been through
and everything the lore is willing to
forgive our duty is to go out and tell
others you know the same message God is
in the business of forgiving you God is
in the business of forgiving me no
matter what you've done true blessing is
found and the forgiveness of our sins in
being forgiven by a loving God who's
willing to forgive so this week I invite
you to go back to psalm 32 sometime in
your own personal time we've got and
read it over again meditate in this all
you know think about you know David
story think about your own story think
about the relationship you have with God
and and just thank the Lord for your
life for your circumstances for your
situation and ask him to give you you
know to put others in your in your path
to whom you could you know walk to and
share about the blessing of being
forgiven Christ that's great dear God
thank you for your word that it's new
and refreshing every day thank you for
the privilege to give us to meditate in
your word thank you for being in the
business of forgiving us no matter what
God I pray that this week you'll help us
find times to come before you and
confess our sins rejoicing in the fact
that you are good and that you want to
have a relationship with us thank you
Lord for your word you will abide in our
hearts and we turn to you day after day
with Thanksgiving
your name we pray