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Psalm 25: Teach Me Thy Paths
David by now has done almost everything a man of God can do. He has slain giants, written songs the whole nation is still singing, worn a crown, led armies, danced before the ark. And yet listen to the verb that repeats through this psalm like a heartbeat: teach. "Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me." The great king becomes, quite deliberately, a schoolboy again. Here is something Lewis noticed and loved — that the closer a soul comes to God, the more of a beginner it feels. The saints do not graduate. They enroll more deeply. And buried inside this schoolboy's prayer is one of the most tender requests in the Bible: "Remember not the sins of my youth." Not: "excuse them," not: "explain them away." Just: let them be forgotten by the only Person in the universe whose forgetting is a kind of grace. Consider how much of your past you would entrust to such a memory.
00:00 Unto Thee, O Lord, I Lift My Soul
00:15 Shew Me Thy Ways, Teach Me Thy Paths
00:35 Remember Not the Sins of My Youth
00:55 Good and Upright Is the Lord
01:15 The Secret of the Lord
01:35 Mine Eyes Are Ever Toward the Lord
02:00 Redeem Israel, O God
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Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day — Psalm Chapter 25. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
Psalm 25 A psalm of David Unto the O Lord do I lift up my soul, oh my God I trust in thee. Let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me. Ye let none that wait on thee be ashamed. Let them be ashamed which trends grass without cause. Show me thy waves O Lord, teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth and teach me, Without the God of my salvation, on thee do I wait all the day. Remember O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving kindness. For they have been ever evolved. Remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions. According to thy mercy, remember thou me for thy goodness sake O Lord.
Good and upright is the Lord. Therefore will he teach sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in judgment and the meek will he teach his way. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. Unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. For thy name sake O Lord, pardon my iniquity for it is great. What man is he that fear the Lord? Him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. His soul shall dwell at ease and his seed shall inherit the earth. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he will show them his covenant. Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord, for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. Turn thee unto me and have mercy upon me. For I am desolate and afflicted. The troubles of my heart are enlarged.
O bring thou me out of my distress. Look upon mine the flixen and my pain, and forgive all my sins. Consider mine enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred. O keep my soul undiliverly. Let me not be ashamed for I put my trust in thee. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me. For I wait undead. Redeem is real, O God, out of all his troubles. O keep my soul undiliverly.
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