Presumptuous Sins

"Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Thy Sight, O Lord, my Strength, and my Redeemer." -- The Bible; Psalm 19:13-14

What a prayer! Keep me from presumptuous sins! Webster defines presumptuous as meaning "overstepping due bounds; taking liberties."

It is presumptuous of me to imagine an existence apart from God. Pretty much everything we think and do in this world is an imagined separate existence... and so these presumptuous sins, these false ideas and ways of being, seem to have dominion over us as we live our imagined separate lives. The Psalmist declares that he will not let these lies have dominion over him, anymore... and without this imagined separate existence and its many false compulsions, he discovers what we also discover... that we are as God created us, and always have been... innocent and free of any separation or sin or transgression.

Now the joy pours out of the Psalmist's heart: "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Thy Sight, O Lord, my Strength and my Redeemer." Letting go of all imagined separateness, there is only the Allness of God... and the Psalmist longs with all his heart to remember only his Oneness with God.

Innocence, joy, and remembrance of Oneness are all that we find, when we let go of all presumptuous sins. God is All.