#DailyDevotion Go To The LORD & Ask For Everything You Think You Need
Psalm 25 5Lead me in Your truth and teach me, because You are the God who saves me. I am always looking to You for help.
David petitions the LORD to lead him and teach him in His truth. This parallels verse four in in which he asks the LORD to let him know the LORD’s ways and paths. A great part of this is the LORD making His presence known in and through His word. Woe to the people from whom the LORD withdraws His word. We see this happening in places where Christianity once was strong but as the love of people towards our LORD Jesus Christ grew cold so did the access to His word. I do believe it has begun to happen here as well. We should pray with David these verses more fervently that the Word of the LORD would remain with us. But for the sake of the elect, it is still present in those previous places and among us though it has lessened as a punishment upon those nations who rejected it.
David asks for the LORD to do this for him because He is the God who saves him. He is always looking for the LORD to help. We too should humble ourselves before the LORD every day and asks for the LORD’s help. Nothing gives Him more glory and honor that looking to Him for help as we humble ourselves before Him in the name of our LORD Jesus Christ. The devil would have us think we are bothering God with such little things. If we don’t ask Him for the little things we probably won’t ask for the big. If we do ask Him for the big and haven’t asked Him for the small, there’s a good chance we aren’t asking Him in faith but are merely wishing. So go to the LORD and ask Him for everything so your faith is strong enough in the day of trouble to ask Him for big things with a living and lively faith.
6Remember, O LORD, how merciful and kind You’ve always been. 7Don’t remember how I sinned and did wrong when I was young. You are so kind–remember me and show how good You are, O LORD.
One of the things we can join David in is asking the LORD to remember how merciful and kind He has always been. Of course He does not need reminding. David is glorifying God here by recalling all the times the LORD has been merciful and kind in the past. It is on the basis of God’s faithfulness in the past David makes his petition. It is probably good for us to remember how the LORD Jesus Christ has been merciful and kind to us. Some people have a God-box. They put in it strips of paper of all the things they are thankful to God for. When they start feeling ungrateful they open their box and read all the things they have with gratitude to God. Directing God towards His kindness and mercy is a good way to start our prayers as it also directs our own hearts in that direction.
In the opposite direction, David asks the LORD to not remember his sins which he committed when he was young. He probably includes the sins of his present as well. In the New Covenant, God forgives us our sins and remembers them no more on account of Jesus Christ the LORD. We can see how kind and good God our Father is when we look at Jesus on the cross. There the penalty for our sin is paid by Jesus and the Father forgets our sins. That is a kind and good thing He has done for us. It on that basis we can go to God in prayer with a clean and pure conscience because we trust what Jesus has accomplished for us on the cross.
Merciful God and Father, may we always have the presence of Your word so we may be instructed in your ways. Remember your goodness, kindness and mercy to us in Christ Jesus, and save us from all evil and wickedness. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.