Teach Me Your Paths
Click here to listen to this sermon. “Make me to know Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths” (Psalm 25:4). Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! One of the things that I appreciate most about the psalms is their transparency and honesty. The psalmist speaks to God, directly and openly. Though they aren’t always right with their initial understanding of their situation, the psalmists lay their souls bare before God, honestly describing life as we live it every day—its highs and its lows, its joys and its sorrows, its triumphs and its struggles, its proud moments and its shameful ones. In the psalms, we learn what it’s like to live in a close relationship with God—someone we can talk with about our deepest hopes and our darkest secrets. And we learn what it’s like when that relationship is strained—when its seems God has turned His back on us, or we wish that He would leave us alone. As we consider our psalm this evening, we will find that many o...