Exodus 37-38; Psalm 19; Acts 11

Psalm 19:12-14

Who can understand his errors?
Cleanse me from secret faults.
Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins;
Let them not have dominion over me.
Then I shall be blameless,
And I shall be innocent of great transgression.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.

This Psalm starts by talking about the glory of the Lord. Then it leads into how pure and perfect God's law and commands are, how His judgements are righteous and true. Finally it ends with these verses.

There are sins, these "secret faults", that I commit of which I may not even be aware. Or they are those heat of the moment reactions that just burst forth from my sinful human nature. I need to remember to confess and be cleansed from those. The other sins are "presumptive" ones. I willfully and deliberately commit them. I have either presumed that God will forgive me anyway. Or maybe, since the prayer here asks that this type of sin doesn't have dominion, this sin is a habit that I am too attached to or feel too weak to break so I presume God would understand my weakness in that area.

But in the end the Psalm makes it clear that God is my rock, unfaltering, unshakable, solid and firm, as well as my Redeemer, the One who will free me from the hold these sins have on me. But I need to keep my outward actions, the words of my mouth, and my inner focus and attitude, the meditations of my heart, completely devoted to this awesome, glorious God.