It's all in the prepositions

Psalm 32:7, "You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance." Selah

David realized that divine pardon is a blessed experience.  And our happiness should be in the favor of God, not in the wealth of this world.  Not confessing sins can lead to the physical ailment of feeling drained...emotionally, physically, and spiritually.  We have guilt as a sign that something is wrong that needs to be made right.  (v. 1-5)

My body physically cried out to repent of sin leading me to CR (now re:generation), a ministry at my church.  First, I want to make clear that we serve a holy, perfect God.  ANY thing outside of His will (serving and honoring Him first) is a sin and the name of the sin doesn't matter.  I just started going to this church and that first night at CR, I sat in a group and vomited out my stuff.  It was crazy because I couldn't believe what came out of my mouth to this group of strangers.  I liken it to when you are starting to feel run down that if you don't take the time to rest, God will take your knees out and MAKE you rest...I prefer the lesser of these and take the time to rest.  You think you can hide your sin and that you even do it well, but if you don't confess it willingly, it WILL be found out and the consequences can be quite yucky. I felt the relief of the weight of sin gone from my shoulders.  And it was replace with JOY...that was the real crazy part.  It is was makes me want to tell people of the God that saves and the most amazing love they will ever know.  

This is where we find David.  He realized there is joy in confessed sin and the cost of unconfessed sin...and in the middle of it he stops to praise God.  It's why I love praise and worship SO much and could just linger there all day.  When you realized all you have been forgiven and that you have been redeemed, you just want to praise Him!  I also love that David's praise is smack dab in the middle of the psalm.  He had that "aha" moment in the middle and just took that moment to stop and acknowledge God in his life.  Love that!  I love how Ironside put it, "In verses 3 and 4 David was hiding FROM God, but in verse 7 he is hiding IN God."  How awesome is our God that in the middle of our yuck He is not only our hiding place, but He is also there singing songs of deliverance over us?!  Can I get a "Hallelujah!"?!