Well, if I see and feel sin within me, surely God will not lead me or care for me, right?

Wrong.

Dead wrong.

And we have proof in Psalm 25, an incredible Psalm for life.

And we read it today in our Navigator's Bible reading plan.

And the Psalm is on the mind of Isabel, confusing her a bit.

She looks at her own life.

She sees her own sin very clearly.

And for that sin inside of her, for that corruption she sees and feels inside, she feels

disqualified. Surely God cannot guide my life. Surely he won't guide my life, not while I am

wrestling with sin inside of me. That along comes David in Psalm 25 and gloriously destroys her whole basis for making

such an assumption about God. Here's Isabel's question from her home in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Pastor John, hello, and thank you for taking my question considering David's confession of sin

throughout Psalm 25,

how does acknowledging our ongoing sinfulness help us find God's guidance more effectively

rather than making us feel more disqualified for his guidance?

I see my sin and assume that God isn't going to help me out in life because of it.

I feel so unworthy to be led by him because it can see my sin so clearly.

But this Psalm doesn't seem to see that as a hindrance to being led that we are sinners.

It is utterly crucial that we settle it biblically once for all. None of us as Christians

will ever be completely free from our own sinfulness, what Paul calls indwelling sin in Romans

720. None of us will be free of our sinfulness before we die or before Jesus comes.

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