SINS OF MY YOUTH

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         REMEMBER NOT THE SINS OF MY YOUTH  

     David  prayed one day-- perhaps many days-- that the Lord would not
remember some  of the things he had done while he was a child.

     Psalms 25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions:
according to  thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

    Childhood  and  youth  are a very treacherous time for human beings.
  Often,  we  lack  a proper  "sense  of direction" and a "balance of
discretion", and if left to ourselves  will  make some  very serious
mistakes.  Some of those youthful mistakes can mar our future to  such  an
extent that we can never fully enjoy what life has to give us.

    Ecclesiastes  11:10  Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away
evil  from  thy flesh: for childhood and youth [are] vanity.

    Job,  in his time of trial, did what most of us would do-- took inventory
of his life--  especially  his youth-- fearing that some foolish, seemingly
harmless, prank was returning  to  collect its "pound of flesh."

    Job  13:26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to
possess the  iniquities of my youth.

    Job's  comforters  joined  in  the chorus, and told him to examine his
 past,  for  there  was surely something from his past that was causing his
dilemna.  It certainly CAN HAPPEN.

    Job  20:11 His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie
down with him in  the dust.

    The  smartest man that ever lived cautions us to beware of some of the
impulses  of  youth, lest  we  live  to  regret our bad attitude toward our
instructors (parents)  and  the  advice  and discipline they give us in our
"formative years."

    Proverbs 5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are
consumed,  And say,  How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised
reproof;  And have not obeyed  the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine
ear to them that instructed me!

    If we are being "stalked by our past", there is one hope.  David knew
about that hope.  He said, "It may be that He will show mercy."  

    Repentance  is  the key.  Though we may carry scars in our body and
memory, it  may  be that  the  Lord  will show us mercy, and remove the blots
from our  souls,  if  we  thoroughly repent and try to rectify what harm we
may have done.

    Isaiah  64:9  Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity
for ever:  behold, see, we beseech thee--.

    Jeremiah  31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after
that I was  instructed,  I smote  upon  [my]  thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even
confounded, because I did  bear  the  reproach of my youth.

    There is hope in Jesus.  Run to Him now-- pour it all out before Him.  IT
MAY BE-- 

    Isaiah 43:25 I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions
for mine own sake,  and will not remember thy sins.