Unmet Goals

I am not necessarily succeeding in fulfilling my two goals for the rest of 2009. The first is caring less about sports. The second is caring less about politics. The sports one is proving to be the most difficult. It is so easy to waste my time on the Internet reading a bunch of nonsense. And since the Tebow has been hurt, I have been all over reading everything I can about his injury. The politics one has been slightly easier but I do catch myself ranting sometimes. For example, I was ranting the other night how Michael Moore is what is wrong with health care. I also may have compared him to the alien in human skin from Men In Black. Either way, I am not necessarily dominating my goal like the Gator offense dominated UK in the first quarter...there I go again on one of those tangents.

This is all connected to a sermon that Steve Lammers gave at my church this weekend on Psalm 32:

A Maskil of David.

Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.
Selah

I acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,"
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.
Selah

Therefore let everyone who is godly
offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;
surely in the rush of great waters,
they shall not reach him.
You are a hiding place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with shouts of deliverance.
Selah

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
which must be curbed with bit and bridle,
or it will not stay near you.

Many are the sorrows of the wicked,
but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD.
Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous,
and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!

David puts a huge emphasis on the confession of sins. In fact, David's bones wasted away inside of him when he kept silent about his sin. So I am confessing my sin because I am broken and worthless apart from the grace of God. I can do nothing to atone for my own sins. I can do nothing to achieve my salvation.
What a wonderful God we serve that hears our prayers and sanctifies us!