Bull’s Eye

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

See my affliction and suffering and forgive all my offenses.  Psalm 25:18  Robert Alter translation Offenses – hatta’t is the predominate Hebrew word for “sin.”  It is a picture of missing the mark, as if we each were shooting arrows at God’s target and missing the dead center bull’s eye.  Livingston notes the following insight:…

Derailed

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Consider my affliction and my travail; and forgive all my sins. Psalm 25:18 Consider – David isn’t like me.  At least he’s not like me in his wholehearted cry to the Lord.  We may share other things.  His faults maybe my faults, but God Himself recognized that David continued in faithful direction even if he…