Dec. 8 - Psalm 25

Today I did my quiet time on the passage we will be focusing on for our last bible study - Psalm 25. The passage is a plea to God for help in times of distress. Although I am not in a period of trouble currently in my life, I still can find hope in this passage. The passage has a few words it focuses on: trust, hope, truth, fear of God, pain, refuge, and prosperity. In a typical university here in America its hard to stand up for your faith and defend it adequately. More and more the idea of intelligent design is viewed upon as myth and tale, a product of the human imagination - and only that. An an environment where professors can lose tenure just for entertaining the thought of ID how then can a mere student withstand the heat in todays universities? Its been hard recently trying to stand up for the faith outside of church. I am sometimes afraid to pray or show my faith in the classroom for fear of being put to shame. But this passage says, "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." I know I need more confidence in the Lord even when its not the most popular thing to do. Integrity and uprightness is what can fix this whole problem! In verse 21 it says just that: "May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you." May integrity and uprightness protect all of us. =]