Contrition Needed

I said, “LORD, be merciful to me;
​​Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”
  -- Psalm 41:4

Some may have said that we do not have to pray things like this after going down to the altar to be saved. David, writing this psalm, was a man after God's own heart, a man blessed with the Spirit of God, and yet he also wrote this verse for today to us. Jesus, a man who was and is God, wrote to us to pray like this, "And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." (Matt 6:12) Those would seem some strong encouragement for us to pray with contrition: a feeling of remorse and penitence. We need God's mercy all the time, and if David needed to pray it and Jesus gave it to us as a model of prayer, well there we go!

Lord, be merciful to me!

Bucky