You Are My Help

Good Morning,

Psalm 40:11-13, 16-17 (NIV)
Do not withhold your mercy from me, O LORD;
may your love and your truth always protect me.
For troubles without number surround me;
my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see.
They are more than the hairs of my head,
and my heart fails within me.
Be pleased, O LORD, to save me;
O LORD, come quickly to help me.
But may all who seek you
rejoice and be glad in you;
may those who love your salvation always say,
"The LORD be exalted!"
Yet I am poor and needy;
may the Lord think of me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
O my God, do not delay.

So, you've sinned and now feel, well, separated from God and maybe totally unworthy. Join the club, as they say. So have I. So have all who have come to know the saving grace of God and accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. As we read today in these verses from Psalms, even the great king David, a man after God's own heart, even he fell into the ways of sin. All human beings are sinners. It's as simple as that. But, the sin we do, the sins that, as David writes, "have overtaken me" don't mean that we are then separated from God. Nor does our sin and sinning mean that God has given up on us.

Read David's prayer and plea to God in these verses. He first admits and confesses sin in his life. Then he asks God to save him. He praises God and exalts Him. And, finally, he admits his need and says that only God is his help and his deliverer.

This, my friends, should be our prayer as well. Especially at those times when we find ourselves falling into sin that we know we ought not to be involved in. This cry to God, thankfully, is always answered. We might not hear directly from God in our human ears, but, believe me, God hears our prayers and our cries for help. And, let us never forget, God forgives. Jesus Christ paid the price for our sin and our sinning ways. He paid the price once and for all...and for always, as well.

A beautiful and meaningful prayer we read today from king David. It needs to be our prayer, as well.

Love, peace, and blessings,

David