Praying Through: Psalm 119:4

The Psalm

Psalm 119:4 (CSB) You have commanded that your precepts be diligently kept.

The Prayer

I have failed you

• time and time again
• I am so far from keeping your precepts
• I have broken all of your laws
• I live in this body death
• where can I go
• only to Sheol
• to sit under your deserving wrath.

But that not what you have determined

• you will not let me rot in hell
• you have not given me over to my own wickedness and worthlessness
• you have promptly and completely removed my sin
• and you placed upon your loving Son.

Your wrath

• placed on him
• he descended into hell
• for me
• but since he is the spotless Lamb who was slain
• not one stitch of infection of Satan and demons could grab onto.

Christ descended into hell--righteous, holy, and blameless

• he ascended from hell--holy, righteous, and blameless.

That death was mine

• now his life is mine.

I will praise your name forever.

Amen