02.025. Psalm 25

Psalms 25:1-22 A Psalm of David. In singing this psalm, let me observe, (1.) What serious work prayer is; what lifting up of soul, what directing of eyes to God, and fixing them on him, must be in it! Psalms 25:1-15. (2.) What mercies ought to be prayed for Pardon of sin, Psalms 25:6-18; direction in duty, Psalms 25:4-5; familiar intimacy with God, ver. 10; deliverance from trouble, Psalms 25:17-18; preservation from adversaries, Psalms 25:20-21; and, in fine, safety and deliverance to the church, Psalms 25:22. (3.)What pleas are proper to be used in prayer; as, the trust we have reposed in God, Psalms 25:2-3, Psalms 25:5-21; our own divinely affected sincerity in the Lord’s way, Psalms 25:21; our distress, and the malice of our enemies, Psalms 25:2, Psalms 25:16-19; but chiefly, the mercy that is in God, and the glory which redounds to his name from his bestowing of new-covenant favours, Psalms 25:6-11. (4.) Strong encouragements to prayer ­ taken from the perfections of God’s nature; from his promises of instruction and direction; from the fulness and grace of his covenant; and from his delight in allowing men familiar intimacy and fellowship with himself, Psalms 25:8-14.

Let these things, my soul, be the object of thy strictest care and attention, in all thy addresses to God.