Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

We had another Psalm round up today and all but one were written by David.

It's really remarkable how well he covers a wide variety of emotions in such detail.

Psalm 25 is a lament that opens with praise

and closes with a request.

There were a few verses I love that I just want to highlight.

Verse 8 says,

good and upright is the Lord.

Therefore, he instructs sinners in the way.

Jesus said a similar thing in Luke 5.

He said, it is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

I love that his goodness and uprightness

doesn't keep him from sinners but draws him to sinners

Centers are the ones who need him that's me that's all of us by the way in verse 11

David admits his guilt which positions him among the humble people he references elsewhere in this chapter.

He says, for your name's sake, oh Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great.

I find it interesting that he appeals for

pardon for God's sake, not his own. Surely it's for his sake too, but this shows us

that when God pardons sinners it displays his character as one who is loving,

forgiving, patient, merciful.

By pardoning sinners, the sinner is blessed and God's character is exalted. You'll notice this phrase, for your

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