{"id":1159,"date":"2025-10-28T19:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:25:09","slug":"how-does-god-think-of-us-psalm-2567","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/how-does-god-think-of-us-psalm-2567\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does God Think of Us? – Psalm 25:6,7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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How would we want other people to think of you? Wouldn’t you want them to think the best? For some people it becomes an obsession: wondering what other people think of them. It is a source of anxiety and shame. Most of the time the truth of the matter is: they don’t spend much time thinking about us at all. And, how much does it matter anyway? Should it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do we want God to think of us? That can be a disturbing line of thought. Many people I know were raised in a hellfire and brimstone religion, where the angry judgement of God was a prominent theme. Human sinfulness & depravity was held up as the basic fact of human nature. We are sinners. And, God is holy. God is offended and angry over our sin. God must condemn us. It is only right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This message, resonates with something deep inside us. We know we are not the people we should be. We are often ashamed of ourselves. And, we can’t help but reason: God must know of flaws and errors that we don’t. We are quick to condemn ourselves. Why wouldn’t God condemn us? In fact, it is hard for us to imagine that God would think more highly of us than we think of ourselves. Isn’t it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is why the message of God’s love is always so hard to believe. If we are sometimes tempted to worry about what other people think of us \u2014 how much more worrisome the thought of what God might think of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

And, there are times when we feel abandoned. We have prayed. No answer as come. We are waiting still. As, I said before, Psalm 25 is a Psalm for the waiting times. It is easy to think that we are forgotten. Even forgotten by God. We may even think: God has such pressing matters to be concerned with. God has no time for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psalm 25:6.7
\u05d6\u05b0\u05db\u05b9\u05e8\u05be\u05e8\u05b7\u05d7\u05b2\u05de\u05b6\u05a3\u05d9\u05da\u05b8 \u05d9\u05b0\u05ad\u05d4\u05d5\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d5\u05b7\u05d7\u05b2\u05e1\u05b8\u05d3\u05b6\u0591\u05d9\u05da\u05b8 \u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u0596\u05d9 \u05de\u05b5\u05e2\u05d5\u05b9\u05dc\u05b8\u05a3\u05dd \u05d4\u05b5\u05bd\u05de\u05bc\u05b8\u05d4\u05c3 7 \u05d7\u05b7\u05d8\u05bc\u05b9\u05a4\u05d0\u05d5\u05ea \u05e0\u05b0\u05e2\u05d5\u05bc\u05e8\u05b7\u05a8\u05d9 \u05c0 \u05d5\u05bc\u05e4\u05b0\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05e2\u05b7\u0597\u05d9 \u05d0\u05b7\u05dc\u05be\u05ea\u05bc\u05b4\u05ab\u05d6\u05b0\u05db\u05bc\u05b9\u05a5\u05e8 \u05db\u05bc\u05b0\u05d7\u05b7\u05e1\u05b0\u05d3\u05bc\u05b0\u05da\u05b8\u05a5 \u05d6\u05b0\u05db\u05b8\u05e8\u05be\u05dc\u05b4\u05d9\u05be\u05d0\u05b7\u0591\u05ea\u05bc\u05b8\u05d4 \u05dc\u05b0\u05de\u05b7\u0596\u05e2\u05b7\u05df \u05d8\u05d5\u05bc\u05d1\u05b0\u05da\u05b8\u05a3 \u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05d5\u05b8\u05bd\u05d4\u05c3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Remember, O Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O Lord.”<\/em> (NIV) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I quote from the NIV this time because it brings out the repetition of the key word here: \u05d6\u05b0\u05db\u05b9\u05e8 (zakar<\/em>) “remember<\/strong>\u2026 remember<\/strong>\u2026 remember<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n