WEDNESDAY, 2 JULY 2025
TEXT: PSALM
6:1-10
[1] Lord, do not rebuke
me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
[2] Have mercy on me,
Lord, for I am faint; heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony.
[3] My soul is in deep
anguish. How long, Lord, how long?
[4] Turn, Lord, and
deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love.
[5] Among the dead no one
proclaims your name. Who praises you from the grave?
[6] I am worn out from my
groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with
tears.
[7] My eyes grow weak
with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes.
[8] Away from me, all you
who do evil, for the Lord has heard my weeping.
[9] The Lord has heard my
cry for mercy; the Lord accepts my prayer.
[10] All my enemies will
be overwhelmed with shame and anguish; they will turn back and suddenly be put
to shame.
(New International
Version Holy Bible)
TOPIC: HAVE MERCY ON ME.
The
early church identified this Psalm as one of the seven penitential ones. These
are Psalms 6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130 and 143. These were times David's prayers
focused on his enemies, that is, imprecatory prayers, but as his communion with
God grew deeper and deeper, he turned the trajectory of his prayers to his
weaknesses, frailties, sinfulness and onto his imperfections.
In
this short Psalm, King David used personal pronouns "me" and
"I" about seventeen times in these ways: "do not rebuke me in
your anger, or discipline me in your wrath. Have mercy on me....heal me,
deliver me, save me" etc.
If
you carefully take inventories of our prayer meetings, the focus is mostly on
our enemies like the Boko Haram, the Fulani bandits, the Kidnappers, the
persecution we are enduring, etc. All of these prayer burdens are not bad as
long as we can devote our time for self-examination and penance. The Bible
assured us that 'when a man's way pleases the Lord, He makes even his enemies
to be at peace with him' (Proverbs 16:7).
QUESTION: Is your prayer largely penitential or imprecatory?
Prayer: I pray, dear y, for the grace to honestly look
inward for self-examination as I always approach You in prayers, in Jesus'
name. Amen!
Remain
Blessed
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