You’ve done wrong and you don’t want to admit it. How long do you keep quiet about it? Psalm 32 talks about that situation and then trains us in the best way to handle it. When we delay or defend ourselves, we're just prolonging a long slow death.
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We are listening to Psalm 32 today and talking about forgiveness, specifically our need for God's forgiveness. When we delay confession or justify our sin, we end up suffering. God is quick to forgive and to hide our sin so that it can never be recorded against us or used to condemn us. But that doesn't work if we on our own try to hide our sin from God and others. Read and meditate on this psalm and let it lead you to rapid repentance over any sin you've not confessed or dealt with before God.
The penitential psalms include: 6, 32, 38, 51, 103, 130 and 143 (these are the Hebrew numbers; in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles the numbers are off by one). We hear of these seven psalms being used in the early church by the fifth century and that could be based on an even earlier tradition. They were prayed especially during Lent, the 40 days of fasting leading up to Easter. Each of these psalms of forgiveness show us different things about the experience of confession and being reconciled in our relationship with God due to sin.
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