Psalm 25. Of David.


I wait for you, O LORD; I lift up my soul to my God.

In you I trust; do not let me be disgraced; do not let my enemies gloat over me.

No one is disgraced who waits for you, but only those who lightly break faith.

Make known to me your ways, LORD; teach me your paths.

Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my savior. For you I wait all the long day, because of your goodness, LORD.

Remember your compassion and love, O LORD; for they are ages old.

Remember no more the sins of my youth; remember me only in light of your love.

Good and upright is the LORD, who shows sinners the way,

Guides the humble rightly, and teaches the humble the way.

All the paths of the LORD are faithful love toward those who honor the covenant demands.

For the sake of your name, LORD, pardon my guilt, though it is great.

Who are those who fear the LORD? God shows them the way to choose.

They live well and prosper, and their descendants inherit the land.

The counsel of the LORD belongs to the faithful; the covenant instructs them.

My eyes are ever upon the LORD, who frees my feet from the snare.

Look upon me, have pity on me, for I am alone and afflicted.

Relieve the troubles of my heart; bring me out of my distress.

Put an end to my affliction and suffering; take away all my sins.

See how many are my enemies, see how fiercely they hate me.

Preserve my life and rescue me; do not let me be disgraced, for I trust in you.

Let honesty and virtue preserve me; I wait for you, O LORD.

Redeem Israel, God, from all its distress! New American Bible
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Lent is a time to ponder our paths and examine our choices. Reading this Psalm I am reminded of Robert Frost's poem. "Two paths diverged in the wood. I(the poet) chose the less traveled path..and that has made all of the difference."

What a difference it makes to chose Jesus and follow in the Way. \o/

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For Lenten Reflection!

Psalms 80:3

Turn us again, O God, and cause Your face to shine on us; and we shall be saved. Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Jeremiah 31:18

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

Lamentations 5:21,

Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

1 Kings 18:37

Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.

Only the grace of God (Lam. 5:21; Phil. 2:13) can show the need and give the power to change.


In Him Who calls us to return,
+Fr. Gregory