Today's reading is Psalms 38-42
Psalms 38
Where do we go when we have done wrong? When guilt overwhelms us? When our actions have brought disease and suffering into our lives?
The Psalmist makes it clear that he looks to God. It is God who is near those who seek him. The psalmist indicates that his sin deserves God's wrath, but he pleads for God to forgive.
There is no conclusion where the psalmist says that he has been saved and all has been made right. However, those who know God know he will forgive. I can't help but feel that many times after prayers for forgiveness there isn't always or maybe often a huge sense of relief. Sometimes our prayers end like this psalm, with a plead and a hope but no solid answer.
Yet we know God does forgive, and that can bring hope even if we don't feel it.
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