Read this first: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+71&version=ESV
You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
21 You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.
Another brutally honest prayer. Super fitting for my week. I’ve been seeing troubles in myself again. Lots of stress from planning an online VBS. I do have lots of help and yet I’m alone and so I feel alone. It’s always a lot of work and it’s messing with my head. I have lots of anxiety about the future and yet today other than my anxiety everything is fine. Why do we make ourselves feel bad just to feel bad? I don’t know but it’s nice to know in that we’re not alone.
The psalmist has the audacity to say you have made me see troubles. I believe that’s true. Our sin requires us to see trouble. We have done wrong and deserve nothing but trouble and honestly the last 38 years of my life in hindsight seem kind of amazing. I can count lots of blessings. Yet even now almost half a year into quarantine I’m still able to find blessings but they’re harder to look for and oddly I’ve never thought about this way before but I have a hard time counting blessings into the future. I only see the problems in the future. I feel like that’s something to work on.
But the other side is God’s going to bring the psalmist greatness again. It’s rare that I see someone cocky and confident in prayer. I’m rarely confident in life and certainly not in my prayers, but God please increase our greatness so others might see your greatness and please we plead bring us comfort! We need it right now.
Marking It Up 