Today's Verse is Psalm 141:2
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense;
And the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
David was in trouble, turmoil even, and so he cries unto God. Some would say (I have been among them) because God knows everything, “Why should we have to pray?” Or, “What use is prayer?” But God is not an impersonal force that is unable to make choices, and He has chosen to allow us to plead with Him. Consider Christ’s admonishment to alway to pray and not to faint, telling us of the widow who wearied an unjust judge. Closing with this: And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? And as James has told us, we receive not because we ask not. Therefore, having been redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb, Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Amen.
To God be the Glory
Scott
Today’s reading is Psalm 56, 120, 140-142
Tomorrow’s reading will be 1 Samuel 25-27
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