I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
David shows us that true happiness rests on one thing alone: God's free forgiveness of our guilt and full acceptance of our persons. Without this reconciliation, men either writhe in torment or drift into deadly forgetfulness of both God and themselves, unable to imagine that He could be gracious to them at all.
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Commenting on Psalm 32:1-11
Christ Himself is our instructor, training us not for pardon to live as we please, but for holiness and perfection. We need no thunderbolt to startle us into obedience, only the whispers and love touches of our Master's eye; as a servant takes his cue from a nod, so should we obey the slightest hints of His wisdom.
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Having tasted the sweetness of pardoning mercy, David cannot doubt God will preserve him from trouble and guard him from returning to folly. God keeps His people from trouble by keeping them from sin. Now converted, he instructs others: whoever desires instruction, I will teach you in the great congregation.
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Commenting on Psalm 32:7-11