In reviewing this Psalm I’ve come to understand even more the effects of sin in our singing to Jesus (worship). The Psalm states: “O Lord open my lips and my mouth will declare your praise”, David comes to understand that sin is effecting his singing (worship) to God and causing him a great level of “bloodguiltiness” to the point that he is having a difficult time singing straight from his heart the greatness of God (Jesus). And so he is asking for forgiveness, which in this setting is equivalent to the verb “open”, because by being forgiven David can now “open his lips” and really worship God. David knows he does not deserve to be forgiven but yet pleads to God because he knows that He is “abundant in mercy”….

This Psalm continues teach us that living a religious Christianity life style will not give us access to God’s own heart in our worship. Instead, what will make our worship real is the assurance that His Spirit is operating in us in that we are recognize our need of Jesus. That in our worship we enter God’s presence “broken”, meaning that we acknowledge that we do not by any means deserve to enter his presence, that it is not the style of music or the fact that we attend church meeting that will make our worship genuine but that it is Christ’s blood, which signifies forgiveness, that will allow our “tongues to sing ALOUD” of His “righteousness in declaring His praise”. And so it is through this redemption, which has made us “whiter than snow” that now causes us to enter “His gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise” (Psalm 100:1) because Jesus has become not just a character in our lives but as David states in this Psalm “God of my salvation”.