Remember Not The Sins Of My Youth

PSALM 25:7
Psalms 25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
Sin is the stumbling block, the thing that needs to be removed. The world seldom takes the sins of the young very seriously, the follies committed in youthful years are thought to be "naughty little" sins, and yet, they are not so little after all; how they can poison our lives even on into old age! How tears flow when we recall the effects of those youthful, careless sins! The psalmist asks the Lord not to remember them against him. Those offences, which we remember with repentance, God forgets; but if we forget them without repentance, justice will bring them to punishment.
Sins, though forgiven, still live on in their effects in the life of the sinner and in the lives of others his sins have influenced and hurt. To pray for a lessening effect of one's past youthful offences is to ask the Lord to deliver from bloodguiltiness, that the previous sowing to the flesh would reap a light crop. God alone can mercifully soften the blow our sins have caused and give over-ruling grace to endure.
An 87-year-old saint, who had spent some 50 years as a child of God, said, in effect, that he wept not for missing out on the world's pleasures, but did weep when he recalled the sins of his youth and the effects they had had on himself and others.
Prayerfully,
Pastor Ed Bowen