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Psalm 32 is another song of penitence and was no doubt occasioned by [[David]]'s [[sin]] with Bathsheba. The background for this Psalm is II [[Samuel]] 11 and 12. [[David]] lusted after his neighbor's wife, committed adultery, made the husband drunk, had him murdered, and then covered the whole affair for at least a year. [[David]] was not a young man when he fell into these sins; he was a mature man ruling over a great kingdom. In this Psalm [[David]] could find no words to express his shame and humiliation.
I firmly believe there is a difference between a [[sin]] of weakness and a willful, habitual [[sin]]. A good man may [[sin]], but, because of that [[sin]], his heart will be broken. This was the case with [[David]]. He had sinned; he knew he had sinned; and his remorse showed him to be a good man. A wicked man is much different from [[David]]. He purposely, willfully, and habitually sins, with no remorse. There is no sorrow, or no repentance because of his [[sin]]. And he would commit the same [[sin]] again.
Psalm 32 speaks of the wonderful forgiveness in Christ. Psalm 33 follows with joy and praise. We have no new song until we become children of [[God]] through the shed blood of Christ. In Psalm 34 [[David]] thanks [[God]] for wonderful deliverance. In every trouble [[David]] went straight to [[God]] in prayer. At every deliverance he went directly to [[God]] in thanks and praise. What a glorious thing to thus live in [[God]]! Someone has said, "Thank [[God]] for the starlight, and He will give you the moonlight. Thank Him for the moonlight, and He will give you the sunlight. Thank Him for the sunlight, and by and by He will take you where He Himself is the Light.".
Psalm 35 is a cry for help in distress and is known as an Imprecatory Psalm. Other such [[Psalms]] are 52, 58, 59, 69, 109, and 137. They must be understood as the prayers of the [[God]]ly in a day of great apostasy and violence. The [[Spirit]] of [[God]] prays through them for the destruction of the wicked. To see a conflict here with [[Jesus]]' teaching of [[love]] and forgiveness is to misunderstand [[God]]'s holiness when His [[grace]] in Christ has been rejected.
