Craig T. Owens

     Remember not the sins (the lapses and frailties) of my youth or my transgressions; according to Your mercy and steadfast love remember me, for Your goodness’ sake, O Lord. … The troubles of my heart are multiplied; bring me out of my distresses. Behold my affliction and my pain and forgive all my sins of thinking and doing. Consider my enemies, for they abound; they hate me with cruel hatred. (Psalm 25:7, 17-19 AMPC)

In this prayer, it appears that David’s enemies are his own accusing thoughts brought on by his sinfulness. 

But David also knows that with God there is full forgiveness. Because of His “mercy and steadfast love,” God forgives our confessed sins and forever forgets them. 

The way to vanquish the internal enemies that accuse and torment us is to bring our “sins of thinking and doing” into the light of our Savior’s presence—only there will we be freed from those enemies.