HEAR Journaling - Psalms Chapter 19
Highlight – Psalms Chapter 19:12-14 New Living Translation
For the choir director: A psalm of David.
12 How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart? Cleanse me from these hidden faults.13 Keep your servant from deliberate sins! Don’t let them control me. Then I will be free of guilt and innocent of great sin.
14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
Explain – The Author, the Psalmist David, asked how he could know the hidden sins in his own heart. He prayed to God to cleanse him from the hidden faults. He prayed for God to keep him from deliberate sin, not to be controlled by sin. He prayed that his thoughts would be pleasing to God, his rock and redeemer.
Apply – We too have hidden sins that God can help us identify, repent, and avoid in the future. The Holy Spirit will lead us unto all Truth, He will not lead us to sin. Let us also meditate on Him, abide in Him and with Him through eternity.
Isaiah 59:2 ESV But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Proverbs 28:13 ESV Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Romans 8:5 ESV For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
1 John 1:9 ESV If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Romans 12:2 ESV Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Galatians 5:16-18 ESV But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Respond – Lord, help me identify any hidden sins. Help me to repent and avoid them in the future. Holy Spirit, please lead me unto all Truth, I know You will not lead me to sin. I strive to meditate on You, abide in You and with You through eternity. I pray for those that do not know You, may they be drawn to You today. Amen.
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