Psalm 6
Sometimes our most passionate prayers arise out of our most miserable circumstances. Sometimes those miserable circumstances arise from our own reckless sin.
Along with Psalms 32, 51, 130 and others, it is helpful to read this one as a cry from a man who sees the folly of his sin. He recognizes that his sin has brought tremendous misery upon himself. He’s faint, his bones are in agony and his soul is in anguish. He needs physical and spiritual relief from the well of God’s steadfast mercy, and he needs it fast!
Have you ever been there? Realized that the reason you’re in the mess you’re in is because of your own foolish disobedience to the Lord? Because you did your own thing when you should have done God’s thing?
David not only knew the agony of his own foolishness, he also knew that the only hope he had for help was in the One against whom he had sinned. So he poured out his heart to the Lord, pleading for the mercy that brings physical, emotional and spiritual healing to a sin-sick soul. And by faith he knew that God had heard and accepted his prayer. He was certain that he would experience the forgiveness and deliverance he desperately needed.
On some days the best prayer you can utter may simply be: “Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I am so weak.”
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