Create in Me a Clean Heart: The 40-Day Challenge (Psalms)预览

Confess Your Rebelliousness

Psalm 25

I was converted 12 years ago, and the first thing the Holy Spirit said to me was - HUMILITY! I knew that word, but what does it mean?!…

It took me a while to realize, at the age of 45, how much my life had been poisoned by bad habits, attitudes, thoughts and behavior. I had grown up in a family that was mostly unbelieving, in a patriarchal family environment with distorted values which can easily breed rebelliousness in a young person. It’s born, grows, becomes fat, mutates into various forms, and makes the owner happy, much to the sorrow and grief of those surrounding him.

Christ told his disciples two millennia ago: “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation!” and here, fortunately, some of those disciples are still walking around... and they came across me... to this day, how that news reached me is still not clear to me, but I am happy that it did. The verse from Psalm 25 “Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways,” is my prayer of repentance, repentance accompanied by a river of tears during my conversion. The tears have not stopped flowing, and always appear at the mention of God’s greatness, goodness, love, mercy, truth, faithfulness, compassion... The tears are because of my sins and evil deeds that they cannot wash away. And because of the humility that still struggles with my rebelliousness. It’s a nasty war!

“Look on my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins...Guard my life and rescue me!” (Psalm 25:18,20)