‘Your eyes will see the king in his beauty’ (Isa. 33:17). If you could pray for one thing, for yourself and everyone you love, every day, for the rest of your life, what would it be?
What we pray for tells us what we long for. It tells us what we hope for and where we think our hope is found.
When David wrote Psalm 27, he was a man who needed to pray, and he knew that God alone could help him: ‘The LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?’ (v1). He had good reasons to be afraid and to grieve. ‘For my father and my mother have forsaken me’ (v10). ‘False witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence’ (v12). What would you pray in those circumstances?
How good are you at being wrong?
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