Better Than Ice Tea

After a fairly hard day of work, relative to those doing the work I am sure, few things have given me refreshment in the past, like a tall glass of ice tea. Coming in from under the sun, with dust running through the cracks in your throat, a tall glass of velvet foam and well brewed tea is about all a sensible man can ask for. There have been times, when lack of better judgement have brought me to the point where I have been aware of very little, save the fact that I needed something to drink, and not much would better satisfy that desire than ice tea.
In light of this analogy, I found my self, some days ago, in a similar state. Through lack of better judgement, I had not been ritualy bathing myself in God's word, an element I know to be crucial to my spiritual life. It was this state that I found myself in, coming to the point of bewilderment, aware of very little but that I needed something to drink, I needed scripture. It was in this moment that I decided to begin with a Psalm. As I am inclined to do with opening Psalms, I generaly pick one at random for the day, it was in this manner that I came accross Psalm 32. I can say very little about this that would enhance it's message, save just how much I found it to be revealing, challenging and all the while, refreshing. Here it reads:

1How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered!
2How blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit!
3When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away
Through my groaning all day long.
4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.
5I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I did not hide;
I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD";
And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah.
6Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found;
Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him.
7You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble;
You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
8I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go;
I will counsel you with My eye upon you.
9Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,
Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check,
Otherwise they will not come near to you.
10Many are the sorrows of the wicked,
But he who trusts in the LORD, lovingkindness shall surround him.
11Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous ones;
And shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.