詩篇 26:1-7
1 耶和華啊， 求你為我伸冤，因我向來行事純全； 我又倚靠耶和華，並不搖動。 2 耶和華啊， 求你察看我， 試驗我， 熬煉我的肺腑心腸。 3 因為你的慈愛常在我眼前， 我也按你的真理而行。 4 我沒有和虛謊人同坐， 也不與瞞哄人的同群。 5 我恨惡惡人的會， 必不與惡人同坐。 6 耶和華啊， 我要洗手表明無辜， 才環繞你的祭壇； 7 我好發稱謝的聲音， 也要述說 你一切奇妙的作為。
Psalm 26:1-7
1 Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in the Lord; I shall not slip. 2 Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; Try my mind and my heart. 3 For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth. 4 I have not sat with idolatrous mortals, nor will I go in with hypocrites. 5 I have hated the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked. 6 I will wash my hands in innocence; So I will go about Your altar, O Lord, 7 that I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all Your wondrous works.
God is love. Actually in Psalm 26:3, David tells us that His lovingkindness is always before our eyes! But David also reminds us in the very same verse that we need to walk in truth, as our God is also the God of truth! Before David was about to offer a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving to God for God’s wondrous works on him, he had to wash his hands to declare his innocence.
Praise the Lord, the blood of Jesus has already cleansed every believer from all sin. Therefore, with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit every believer has the full potential to walk in the light as God Himself is in the light! But is this the reality of our life? May David’s plea also be our plea for today: Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; Try my mind and my heart!
