September 7, 2025, Psalm 38:1-22
September 7, 2025, Psalm 38:1-22
38 O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger,
nor
discipline me in your wrath!
2 For your arrows have sunk into me,
and your
hand has come down on me.
3 There
is no soundness in my flesh
because
of your indignation;
there is no health in my bones
because
of my sin.
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head;
like a
heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
5 My
wounds stink and fester
because
of my foolishness,
6 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
all the
day I go about mourning.
7 For my sides are filled with burning,
and
there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and crushed;
I groan
because of the tumult of my heart.
9 O Lord,
all my longing is before you;
my sighing
is not hidden from you.
10 My heart throbs; my strength fails me,
and the
light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
11 My friends and companions stand aloof from
my plague,
and my
nearest kin stand far off.
12 Those
who seek my life lay their snares;
those
who seek my hurt speak of ruin
and
meditate treachery all day long.
13 But I am
like a deaf man; I do not hear,
like a
mute man who does not open his mouth.
14 I have become like a man who does not hear,
and in
whose mouth are no rebukes.
15 But
for you, O Lord, do I
wait;
it is
you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
16 For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me,
who boast
against me when my foot slips!”
17 For I
am ready to fall,
and my
pain is ever before me.
18 I confess my iniquity;
I
am sorry for my sin.
19 But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty,
and many
are those who hate me wrongfully.
20 Those who render me evil for good
accuse
me because I follow after good.
21 Do not
forsake me, O Lord!
O my
God, be not far from me!
22 Make haste to help me,
O Lord,
my salvation!
These verses share the
prayer of a suffering sinner and teach us moral values. We are warned that
anger can lead to sin and advised to turn away from it. Further we are urged to
trust God in all matters of our lives and future.
Consider how sin affects your life over time?
When God disciplines us, how do we respond?
Have you been criticized for doing what’s right in the sight of the Lord? How
do you respond?
Robin Adams
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