We
are not to pray to God with superficial words that don’t mean very much
to us. Our prayer is to be a real cry from the heart: ‘Out of the
depths I cry to You, O Lord’ (Psalm 130:1). We are to ‘cry for mercy’
with a deep awareness of how sinful we really are: ‘If You, O Lord, kept
a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?’ (Psalm 130:3). We must come
to God with deep humility - ‘My heart is not proud, O Lord’ (Psalm
131:1). When we truly confess our sin, we receive God’s ‘unfailing love’
and ‘forgiveness’ (Psalm 130:4). ‘In the Lord’ we have ‘full
redemption’ (Psalm 130:7). It is for ‘now’ - ‘The vilest offender who
truly believes, that moment from Jesus a pardon receives’. It is ‘for
evermore’ - ‘But purer and higher and greater will be our wonder, our
transport, when Jesus we see!’. ‘Praise the Lord!... Give Him the
glory!’ (Psalm 131:3; Church Hymnary, 374).
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