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Psalm chapter 85 verse 4

restore us again oh god of our salvation and put away your indignation toward us.

This whole Psalm is a prayer for God's grace and mercy and forgiveness

for sin among his people.

The whole Psalm starts with looking back to when

God's people were unfaithful in the past and he forgave them

and restored them.

Verse one says, Lord, you were favorable to your land.

You restored the fortunes of Jacob.

You forgave the iniquity of your people.

You covered all their sin. you withdrew all your wrath you turn from your

hot anger so restore us again verse four says oh God of our salvation put away your indignation toward us.

As I read this, I think about this on multiple levels, on a personal level,

praise God for his forgiveness and restoration in our lives in the past.

It is good to pause and to remember the times when God has shown such mercy to you and to me,

not that we want to think about all the ways and the times we have sinned against

God, especially when he says, I remember your sins no more, but it is good to remember how much we have been forgiven to

praise God for his salvation for restoring us. I shudder to think where I would be without the mercy of God in my life.

I don't even want to think about that. But then also to realize it's not like I don't still sin, that I am not still prone to turn from God in my own life and then for us to think about this together as the church in our day

restore us again oh God of our salvation. We need to go to the God of mercy and cry out for his forgiveness for our sins individually

and for our sins together as the people of God and to cry out for him to

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