The first section of Psalms has been called the Genesis Psalms.

They help us to realize that every good thing begins with God.

The Psalms provide a road map for the journey ahead.

In them, we learn to bring every emotion and experience of life into the presence of God.

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For many years, it was my joy and privilege to stand in a classroom and to teach students.

And of course, as the teacher, you're always looking for students who are open, who are willing to receive and ready to respond.

That's a wonderful thing. But as a Christian, I have to realize every day I'm not the teacher. I'm the student. It doesn't matter how old you get, how long you've lived, how much you think you know. In reality, the teacher is the Lord, and we are all just students in his classroom. So let me ask you a question today. What kind of student do you think the Lord

would say you are? How teachable are you? Are you still wide open to God or do you feel like

you've graduated from that school? My friend, the Lord's school is a school you never graduate from.

Not until we graduate into his presence. We've come in our study through the Psalms to

the Psalm I think of the teacher, Psalm 25, or maybe we should turn it around and say the

Psalm of the student because it is written from David's perspective to the Lord.

Psalm 25 is interesting on many fronts. For example, it's 22 verses long. There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet,

and it is the first occasion in Scripture where each verse, if you looked at it in the Hebrew writing,

begins with the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. It's an acrostic. That's beautiful.

I think in a practical way, it was used as a memory device,

a way to memorize scripture and to meditate on scripture. Maybe there's something good there for us

that we should employ ourselves. But I think there's a great spiritual truth behind it as well,

because Psalm 25 is one of what is referred to as the penitential

Psalms, the repentance Psalms. There is the idea here of completeness. I want to be completely right

with God and I want to deal completely and thoroughly with my sin. I want nothing between me

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