the toddler years

Psalm 26:3, "for Your love is ever before me, and I walk continually in Your truth."

I accepted Christ when I was 16 years old.  But I have only been walking with Jesus since 2008.  And it has been a long, hilly, winding road I've walked.  I kind of trip up in reading this psalm and applying it to myself because I struggle with the word "blameless" ("Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have led a blamelss life..." v.1) that David uses for himself.  I think that can't apply to me and I can't cry this out to God because I am not blameless.  Dr. Constable showed me that David was not claiming to be morally perfect, but that tendency of his inmost nature turned towards God and to Him only.

Here's where I'm going with this.  I'm 51 now.  I should be a mature Christian, wise in years and experience.  But, because of being undiscipled and my own rebellion, I have, for many years, considered myself a "baby Christian".  I have grown and now consider myself to be more of a "toddler" who is teetering and figuring out how to walk more blamelessly in life without wavering.  But, I'm on the right path now...and His love is ever before me so that I toddle in His truth.  And the truth of this psalm is that we can confidently cry out to Him for vindication from spiritual enemies because we are righteous (blameless) before Him (Swindoll)...not because of what we have done, but because of what He has done for us.