Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for your goodness’ sake, O LORD!
Psalm 25:7
In this time of reflection, it is good to look back on our lives and think about those things we have done in all our humanness that we now recognize failed to live up to God’s plan for us. This passage reminds us that we all have committed acts against God’s teachings. When David speaks of youth in this passage, does he speak of childhood sins? More likely he is talking about both the sins he has committed in his immature understanding of what God wants him to do and in his childish desire to do what he wants to do. We, too, are “youth” in our childish desire to do what we want rather than what God wants and that can lead us to unworthy acts. Perhaps we judge others and treat them poorly because they don’t look or act in a certain way rather than treating each person as the fellow child of God that they are. We may focus our attention on that new, big, flat-screen, hi-def TV that will break in a few years, rather than the spiritually fulfilling things which will enrich our lives forever. Today, we might want to focus on actions that are in keeping with God’s will rather than our own. Secondly, David reminds us that no matter what our transgressions may be, God is all loving and good, and He will forgive us whatever our sins if we ask, and He will love us always.
Taylor Milbradt
