Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am weak—Psalm 6:2
This is one of my favorite prayers to pray, because it makes its plea to God on weakness. I read that the word “weak” in the original literally means “I am one who droops.” I so get that feeling. I am fading fast. My body and my spirit are like a withered plant in need of water and TLC. Deal gently with me Lord...give me encouragement and strength. How good and kind is our God that we can plead weakness with Him and expect kindness. A bruised reed He will not break and a smoking flax He will not quench. There are few men in this world to which we could plead weakness and move any of them in our favor. But our God is RICH in mercy. His love for us is great and His desire toward us for our good. His grace is EXCEEDINGLY rich in kindness. Pleading helplessness, hopelessness, unworthiness, insufficiency, need, misery or tears pierces His heart and opens the door for Him to deliver and show us the exceeding riches of His kindness toward us. The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart and saves such as have a contrite spirit. For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, in order to revive the spirit of the humble and the heart of the contrite ones.
As a father pities his children,
So the Lord pities those who fear Him.
For He knows our frame;
He remembers that we are dust.
As for man, his days are like grass;
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
For the wind passes over it, and it is [b]gone,
And its place remembers it no more.
But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting
On those who fear Him,—Psalm 103:13-17
