Psalm 130 ESV

My Soul Waits for the Lord A Song of Ascents.

130 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! 2     O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive     to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,     O Lord, who could stand? 4 But with you there is forgiveness,     that you may be feared.

5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,     and in his word I hope; 6 my soul waits for the Lord     more than watchmen for the morning,     more than watchmen for the morning.

7 O Israel, hope in the Lord!     For with the Lord there is steadfast love,     and with him is plentiful redemption. 8 And he will redeem Israel     from all his iniquities.

Main points:

1) This passage is parallel to the Lord's prayer in Matthew 6 upon first glance. Starts with putting the focus on the Lord, proceeds to shrinking ourselves and needing His forgiveness, and ends with the expectation that we wait and adhere to His will to make what we have as hope today as love and Joy into the future. The order may be slightly off, but the points are still clear. 2) The emphasis on forgiveness here is the prime reason for Jesus's sacrifice. We still repent in Christ(incredibly incredibly important), but because of that sacrifice we can instead of focusing on cleansing ourselves be all in on advancing towards making these hopes for the future come true. God will meet us where we are.(Psalm 34) It is up to us to follow Him as He increases and we decrease in our lives. John 3:30. 3) Who we are versus the soul God has put in us can differ greatly. Physically and mentally we have impediments to allowing our souls that full potential. This is why we turn to His word to better understand how we can not only overcome what holds us back to glorify God, but proceed towards the heaven we all seek in making His ways our ways.(Isaiah 55)