Psalm 26
1Vindicate me, O LORD,
for I have walked in my integrity,
and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
2Prove me, O LORD, and try me;
test my heart and my mind.
3For your steadfast love is before my eyes,
and I walk in your faithfulness.
4I do not sit with men of falsehood,
nor do I consort with hypocrites.
5I hate the assembly of evildoers,
and I will not sit with the wicked.
6I wash my hands in innocence
and go around your altar, O LORD,
7proclaiming thanksgiving aloud,
and telling all your wondrous deeds.
8O LORD, I love the habitation of your house
and the place where your glory dwells.
9Do not sweep my soul away with sinners,
nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
10 in whose hands are evil devices,
and whose right hands are full of bribes.
11But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity;
redeem me, and be gracious to me.
12My foot stands on level ground;
in the great assembly I will bless the LORD.
1Vindicate me, O LORD,
for I have walked in my integrity,
and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
2Prove me, O LORD, and try me;
test my heart and my mind.
3For your steadfast love is before my eyes,
and I walk in your faithfulness.
4I do not sit with men of falsehood,
nor do I consort with hypocrites.
5I hate the assembly of evildoers,
and I will not sit with the wicked.
6I wash my hands in innocence
and go around your altar, O LORD,
7proclaiming thanksgiving aloud,
and telling all your wondrous deeds.
8O LORD, I love the habitation of your house
and the place where your glory dwells.
9Do not sweep my soul away with sinners,
nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
10 in whose hands are evil devices,
and whose right hands are full of bribes.
11But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity;
redeem me, and be gracious to me.
12My foot stands on level ground;
in the great assembly I will bless the LORD.
i had a break between tabling and my only class for the day at two...so i went to the engineering library and read this psalm. i signed up for tabling before i started this thing, so tabling today was kind of hard. i have been debating as to how to minimize attention towards myself...and i think that this will all fade after a week after ppl get used to it.
when i read this psalm i was thinking of what kind of man david must have been if he could pray a prayer like this. is this what i am asking as i partake this one month "oath of silence" as it has been nicknamed by various ppl. i know that i do not walk with integrity....nor does my trust not waver in the Lord. i don't have the courage to ask God to examine me and try me and test my mind and my heart. and yet the next part of the psalm talks about the other ppl...those that walk without integrity...those that do not trsut in God but go about trusting in themselves. it dawned on me again that God is the one Person we should turn to for everything. He is everything. and if i know that...why can't i live it? i am of such little faith. if Jesus were to return would we recognize Him? or would we pass Him by because we have made Him out to be someone else...someone like ourselves...myself. to stand on level ground...and bless the Lord among His people. its what we should long to do now...its what we should long to do in heaven. i have so much to learn...
when i read this psalm i was thinking of what kind of man david must have been if he could pray a prayer like this. is this what i am asking as i partake this one month "oath of silence" as it has been nicknamed by various ppl. i know that i do not walk with integrity....nor does my trust not waver in the Lord. i don't have the courage to ask God to examine me and try me and test my mind and my heart. and yet the next part of the psalm talks about the other ppl...those that walk without integrity...those that do not trsut in God but go about trusting in themselves. it dawned on me again that God is the one Person we should turn to for everything. He is everything. and if i know that...why can't i live it? i am of such little faith. if Jesus were to return would we recognize Him? or would we pass Him by because we have made Him out to be someone else...someone like ourselves...myself. to stand on level ground...and bless the Lord among His people. its what we should long to do now...its what we should long to do in heaven. i have so much to learn...
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