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Scripture Meditation No. 1652
AATHAVAN – Saturday, 16 August 2025
"Good and upright is the LORD: therefore, will he teach sinners in the way." (Psalm 25:8, KJV)
God loves all people in the world. Therefore, when men go astray from Him because of their sinful ways, He intervenes in various ways to draw them back. Failures and problems are often opportunities God gives for people to pause and examine their lives. At times, when they turn away from His path, He uses His servants to point them to the right way. Yet, many are unwilling to correct their sinful ways.
However, when a person listens to the voice of the Lord — when the fear of the Lord arises in the heart — God will guide him in the right path. As David says, "What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose." (Psalm 25:12, KJV)
Our God hates sin, but loves sinners. It is not His desire that sinners perish and go into the fire of hell. Because He is good and upright, He reveals Himself in many ways, waiting for sinners to turn from their ways and repent. When they do, He rejoices.
Jesus expressed this through a parable: "How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray." (Matthew 18:12–13, KJV)
Because the Lord is good and upright, He is patient, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. The apostle Peter says, "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9, KJV)
David’s words, "Good and upright is the LORD: therefore, will he teach sinners in the way" (Psalm 25:8), were born from his own experience. After he fell into the sin of adultery with Bathsheba and followed it with murder, the Lord, being good and upright, sent the prophet Nathan to show him the right way.
Dear beloved, in our lives too, there are times when we may go astray and sin. But when we do, the Lord speaks to us in different ways to make us realize it. We must listen to His voice, correct our ways if they are wrong, and seek His forgiveness. Then, just as Christ said, He will rejoice over us — the sinner who has repented — even more than over the ninety-nine who did not stray.
Message by — Bro. M. Geo Prakash
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