August 02 2025

Today, Saturday August 02

Blessed is the Forgiven Man

Psalm 32:1-6

1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit. 3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah 5 I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD," And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah 6 For this cause everyone who is godly shall pray to You In a time when You may be found; Surely in a flood of great waters They shall not come near him.

Welcome to Pastor's Chat today. Thank you so much for your prayers the last couple days during our travels to Colorado. God gave us traveling mercies. We did experience some difficulty catching our flight from Dulles to Roanoke, yet the Lord provided a bus for us, which was a long ride with the rain and terrible conditions on Interstate 81. But we made it back to Salem safely last night, and our dear friends Johnny and Linda King picked us up and took care of us. On top of it, God gave us a wonderful divine appointment in His providence, and that’s another story for another time. God is so good, and we thank you for your prayers.

Today, I feel led, because it is the second day of August, to look at Psalm 32, which is the first of the five Psalms readings for today. I encourage you to read the Psalms with us or read them yourself. Five Psalms a day will get you through the Book of Psalms every month. Oh, how we need to be reminded of God's mercy, because in the Old Testament especially, we read so much about the wrath of God, the punishment of God, and the chastisement of God upon His people and the nations. Therefore, it’s great to have a book right in the middle of the Old Testament, so to speak, that reminds us of God's wonderful mercy.

Yesterday, we discussed Psalm 1, and found blessed is the man who walks with God and meditates in His Word. We find not only are we blessed that way, but we’re blessed when our sins are forgiven. That’s how Psalm 32 starts. David is calling out to God to forgive him for his sin. His sin was significant, as he committed adultery and then murder. He’s crying out to God for forgiveness, confessing not only his sin but the iniquity of his sin—the motive behind it, being selfish, self-centered, and letting pride creep into his life, thinking he could make it on his own without God. That’s what always leads us to drift away from God.

Psalm 32 says, “Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.” Remember, we said blessed is the man who walks with the Lord, who is in God's Word and becomes like a tree planted by the rivers of water in Psalm 1. But now in Psalm 32, blessed is the person whose sin is forgiven. To have our sins forgiven, there must be confession. Verses 2-4 go on to say, “Blessed is the man in whom the Lord counts no iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit. For when I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me. My strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.” David tried to hide his sin, covering it up, and he felt the oppression of God upon him, the hand of God pushing him down. He felt the heaviness, guilt, and burden of that sin.

Then, in verse 5, David says, “I acknowledged my sin to You, and I did not cover my iniquity. I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,’ and You forgave the iniquity of my sin.” Not only the sin David committed, because that wasn’t the real problem. The real problem was the motive, the iniquity, the reason—what took place in his heart that led to that sin. He confessed that.

David says in verse 6, “Therefore, let everyone who is godly offer prayer to You at a time when You may be found. Surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.” In other words, when times of trouble come, they won’t overwhelm you if you have confessed your sins.

Yes, blessed is the man who meditates in God's Word, who doesn’t walk or run around with the wrong people, as in Psalm 1. But now, blessed is the man whose sin is covered. God has taken care of it through the blood of Jesus Christ. There’s no greater feeling, no greater emotion, no greater thing that can happen to you and me than to know our sins are covered. That they are forgiven. God has removed them from us. Why? Because He placed them on Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago, and He paid the price for those sins so that when we confess our sins, we can be set free.

Today, are you experiencing and enjoying the blessing of your sins being forgiven?

God bless!