Pastor’s Blog
Back and Forth: Psalms 57 & 142
Some people like to go spelunking, i.e. cave exploring. The helmets with the lights on them. The ropes and harnesses. That's going into caves for fun, but imagine if you had to live in one. That'd include a sleeping bag on a hard floor. Drip-drip-dripping. Bats, maybe. And now imagine that you have to live in one because you are on the run for your life. That'd include fearfulness to be seen outside the cave. Missing the friends and family you used to see all the time.
Same Prayer: Psalm 25:16-20
Let's get right to the point. You can ask for forgiveness and help in the same prayer.
Sometimes people think they have to be really good for God to notice them. Or if they are hoping for something big to come, they pray for God to give it based on how hard they've been working, how diligent and faithful. Or they think they can't ask for that big miracle since they haven't been faithful lately. Maybe they should promise to be really good. Maybe they should live really good for a while. Then they can pray. Maybe they have wandered or drifted from God or they recently did something they are really embarrassed about, and they think they have to log some good days before they come to God with that request.