God Answers to David

We’ve been looking at David’s prayer in Psalm 25, specifically, “Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.”

Let me show you what God does in answer to David’s prayer. If you look at verses 8-10 you find God, point for point, answering David’s prayer. Look at the words, “He instructs sinners in the way,” “He leads the humble in what is right,” He “teaches the humble His way,” and shows the “paths of the Lord”in verse 10. God is now doing what David asked Him to do in verses 4-5 and this Psalm is a result.

Let me run through what David Learns from God. If you take the whole Psalm, you find God is:

faithful,
truthful,
He is Savior,
He is merciful and loving,
He is good,
He is good and upright,
He leads and teaches,
He is love and faithful,
He is forgiving,
He instructs,
offers relationship and confides in us as friends,
He rescues,
He is gracious,
He is a refuge,
and He is a redeemer.
All of that is here and all of that is absolutely vital information for a man or woman caught up in fear, loneliness, guilt, and shame. God is truly faithful to us.

But how can we find His guidance when we are in the midst of our sin? We will look at that tomorrow.