The psalm we have read today calls all God's people to worship. As you worship God today, pause to praise him for his forgiveness. In the verse cited above Paul quotes Psalm 32:1, saying, "Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered." Christians come together to worship the God who made the first move toward them in Jesus Christ. We are God's people, and he loves us.

In 1966 some of the top thinkers from the world's religions gathered in New Delhi, India, to isolate what was unique about religion in the human experience. They came to no conclusions about religion in general because the world of religion is so diverse.

They did come to one conclusion, though-which apparently no one expected. They discovered that all religions except one were based on a way for humans to appease their deity. The one religion that's unique is Christianity. Instead of teaching that people have to look for a way to appease their deity, Christianity teaches that the one true God seeks out his people to forgive them. The New Delhi scholars discovered that Christianity at its core teaches forgiveness initiated by God.

The Bible is the record of that divine forgiveness. And it calls all people to follow God's example and seek out people to whom they can show forgiveness.