January 21, 2020
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Reading along with us in Psalm? Here’s today’s reading:
Psalm 86 (ESV)
A Prayer of David.
1 Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me,
for I am poor and needy.
2 Preserve my life, for I am godly;
save your servant, who trusts in you—you are my God.
3 Be gracious to me, O Lord,
for to you do I cry all the day.
4 Gladden the soul of your servant,
for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul......Continue Reading
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15 But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
I am so thankful for this verse and this truth in my life! I don’t deserve all He provides me….mercy, grace, forgiveness….and yet He is faithful and loves me anyway!
Oh how I need His mercy and grace. I love that David was real with God. He poured out his feelings and then praise God for his attributes.
What a great position before God the Psalm begins with: help me God because I am poor and needy. Isn’t that always the case in spite of any success or strength we have in our flesh, before God we are always poor and needy? It’s interesting the balance that exists here between requests that are made and then explanations of why the request is made. The explanations are usually because of who God is. Other times the explanation is because of the nature of his need. But what a great model for prayer is in that. For example, God here is what I need, here is my request. Why do I make it? Because you are great and good and my life is a mess but my heart is inclined to you. The other part of the Psalm are statements of what he will do or what he believes, and those too are mostly based in who God is. What a great expression of God’s power, mercy and love are found in this Psalm. Great is our God and greatly to be praised!
Psalm 86:11 (ESV)
Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.
What a prayer even for us today. The Psalmist desires to know God’s way so that he may walk in obedience with an undivided heart, ‘unite my heart’. As we draw closer to God, study his word and seek his face then we are less prone to follow the way of our own desires and folly. Instead, God’s desires infuse itself to our own.
1 Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me,
for I am poor and needy.
2 Preserve my life, for I am godly;
save your servant, who trusts in you—you are my God.
3 Be gracious to me, O Lord,
for to you do I cry all the day.
4 Gladden the soul of your servant,
for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
5 For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
6 Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer;
listen to my plea for grace.
7 In the day of my trouble I call upon you,
for you answer me.