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 roadmap for the journey ahead.

In them, we learn to bring every emotion and experience of life

into the presence of God. Join Scott Pauley now as we study God's word together.

Memory is a beautiful gift that God has given all of us to exercise and yet every blessing can also be a curse isn't it amazing that we have a tendency to forget what we should remember and remember what we

should forget we've come to a psalm that is known as a Psalm of remembrance.

Psalm 38.

In fact, the inscriptions has a Psalm of David to bring to remembrance.

But when you read Psalm 38, what he's remembering is pain.

What he's remembering is the grief and the guilt that sin has brought into his life.

We don't know exactly when David wrote it, but there's a lot of emotion in it.

In fact, let's just read a little of Psalm 38.

Oh, Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure,

for thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

There's no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger, neither's any rest in my bones

because of my sin, for mine iniquities are gone over my head, as in heavy burden, they're too

heavy for me. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. I'm troubled.

I'm bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long, for my loins are filled with a loathsome

disease and there's no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble and sore broken. I've roared by reason

of the disquietness of my heart. Lord, all my desires before thee,

and my groaning is not hid from thee. My heart panteth, my strength faileth me. As for the light

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