Praying Through: Psalm 34:15-18

The Psalm

Psalm 34 (CSB)

The Prayer

Why would you spare me?

I have seen the evil that men have done

• I have seen their sins stacked up
• miles above
• oceans deep
• filling the earth
• with treachery and debauchery

My sins filled more

• overfill all oceans and canyons
• I have done more evil in your sight
• than all of humanity
• I am the supreme chief of sinners

But yet

• you saw me
• not the good that I could ever do
• but the wickedness that was in me
• and you pitied me
• because I was a fool
• and you sought me
• because I was lost
• and you loved me
• because I was completely unlovable

When I saw your glory

• from the deepest, darkest parts of my heart
• I cried out in agony and pain,
• "HAVE MERCY ON ME, A SINNER!"

And your sweetest, only begotten Son

• laid his mighty hand on me
• and quietly respond,
• "I do not condemn you"

Now, only because of You

• that I will go
• and sin no more.

Praise be to your loveliest name.