Psalm 65:1-13
Key Verses:
2-3
You
listen to prayer—and all living things come to you. When wrongdoings become too
much for me, you forgive our sins.
“You listen to prayer.”
When you speak, God listens. What a profound thing to think, “God listens to me.”
The God who spoke and creation came into being. The God who set the universe in
motion, and gave breath to all humanity, listens when I speak. Why would God even
pay attention to me, to any of us? However, God does. Even as we fail, even as
we muck things up over and over again, we can go to God with our concerns, our
hurts, our pains. It is never too much for God. God does not become annoyed
with us.
Even when we fail, repeatedly,
we can come to God in our failings, in spite of our failings, because of our
failings and when the weight, the burden, of our wrongdoings is so great that
it is too much for us to bear, it is not too much for God to forgive. God
forgives and forgives and forgives. As many times as we get it wrong, if we
come to God, whenever we come to God, seeking to set things right, God sets
them right. No matter what, every time; God
sees; God hears; God listens; God forgives.
Things to
Think on
What
does it mean to you to know God listens to you prayer?
Have you
ever wondered if God gets annoyed with the way we continually expect God to pay
attention to the things, which matter, to us?
Have your
wrong doings, your failings ever been too much for you? What did that feel
like?
Have you
ever thought that your failings, your wrongdoings, your sin was too much for
God?
A Prayer
for Today
God, I
come to you so much. I come to you with the trivialities of my small existence.
I ask you over and over again to reform me, to help me to do better, to be the
person you want me to be, the person I should be. I fail in so many ways, all
the time. I am never you I believe you to want me to be. Sometimes I think it
must be too much. I am not the Christian, the person you are calling me to be.
Thank you for not giving up on me, for restoring me each and every time. Help
me to never take your forgiveness for granted, yet always stand in awe of your
love and your mercy and yet continue to seek it every day. – Amen
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