Exhortations on Psalm 25

Exhortations on Psalm 25:1-

Wednesday, June 06, 2018

1:40 PM

an acrostic poem, with each of its twenty-two verses beginning with the successive twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

The Defender's Study Bible.

The psalmist has even employed the alphabet acrostic to highlight the connections between concern and confidence. This device was used as a memory aid, assisting the young to learn God's Word. The psalmist wants even children to know how to face difficult times.

Acrostics also reveal the orderliness of the world and God's sovereignty over it. The psalmist wants to show that life occurs under the watchful and loving eye of a sovereign God.

Wesleyan Bible Commentary - Wesleyan Bible Commentary – Psalms.

Psalm 25:1

Lifting up one's hands or eyes may give an outward show of piety, but this is meaningless unless one's soul is lifted up.

The Defender's Study Bible.

Do I lift up my soul—His soul was cast down, and by prayer and faith he endeavors to lift it up to God.

Adam Clarke's Commentary.

A cast down soul -

Several times this thought is shown in the Psalms.

In fact the Psalmist asks several times - "Why art thou cast down oh my soul?"

He often answers it with - HOPE THOU IN GOD!!!

Prayer and faith will help in lifting your heart from your circumstances to Christ.

Look to Jesus -

Let not mine enemies triumph over me - Enemies are sometimes looked at as someone who is out to do you in. I want to look at them not only as people, but things temptations.

Do you have something in your life that is trying to do you in spiritually? Is there something that would turn you from Christ. I beg you pray this prayer over it - "LET NOT THIS ENEMY TRIUMPH OVER ME!!!"

4 -

Psalm 25:4-5 (KJV)

4 Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

If someone really prays this - God will lead and show them the way to go!!!

6 -

tender mercies. This is the first of ten references in the Old Testament (all in the Book of Psalms) to God's "tender mercies" (one word in the Hebrew).

The Defender's Study Bible.

At the heart of the psalm is the appeal that God should remember His mercy and not our sins (vv. 6, 7). The verb "remember" includes the idea of acting upon what is remembered.

The Apologetics Study Bible: Understanding Why You Believe.