Gods perfect recreation of us.

Ps 25

1 To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;

2 in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.

3 No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse.

4 Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths;

5 guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.

6 Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.

7 Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD.

8 Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.

9 He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.

10 All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of his covenant.

11 For the sake of your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.

12 Who, then, is the man that fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the way chosen for him.

13 He will spend his days in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.

14 The LORD confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.

15 My eyes are ever on the LORD, for only he will release my feet from the snare.

16 Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.

17 The troubles of my heart have multiplied; free me from my anguish.

18 Look upon my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins.

19 See how my enemies have increased and how fiercely they hate me!

20 Guard my life and rescue me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.

21 May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you.

22 Redeem Israel, O God, from all their troubles! 

If we study and meditate on this Psalm we will find that it is a holistic petition for God to form the Psalmist into a new man. Our tendency is divide our weaknesses and sins so that we can pinpoint the problem and then find the scripture that applies to it so that we reckon the sin dead through Christ death. In other words our purpose in dealing with sin is to try to stop sinning. 

I think this comes because we take a teaching in the NT that is describing the doctrine and the work that Christ has done in order to put the doctrine in its proper context and we assume that we can take that description and apply it to our particular problem. Most of our problems in the christian life do not come from understanding the teaching but miss applying the teaching. We find here that the Psalmist comes to God touching all of the points of what the bible describes as true faith in the form of a petition as if he is balancing himself so that he can walk straight. But the question is why does the Psalmist end the Psalm with such a desperate cry? 

The reason is because God is more than just a Person who helps us in our faith. No the Psalmist has a much more profound understanding of what is necessary for there to be real change. The Psalmist purpose is not to sin less. He is appealing to God who creates and recreates his total being. 

God sees every thing that is in creation as the most beautiful objects that are working in perfect unity for the purpose of bringing Himself glory. Our problem is that we only see our weaknesses and sins from our perspective and how they affect us. Our imperfect view keeps us from experiencing the unity that God has established in gifting us with His perfect acts that are described in His law. Because of our distance from enjoying Gods back bone as His expression of strength and comfort we experience loneliness...an inability to view the value of all things that God views. This is the desperation that the Psalmist finds himself with as cries out to God.  The Psalmist is praying to a God who can provide the successful foundation in which the Psalmist can experience a security that is outside of his small view as if God is allowing the Psalmist to be taken from the dungeon of his own finite experience to the eternal garden of the beauty and order of Gods perfect kingdom.