READ: Psalm 28
Summer is a time to play outside. From riding bikes to swimming to playing a pickup game of baseball, children are playing everywhere in our neighborhood. I was playing a “sandlot” baseball game with my son and his friends recently when the baseball inadvertently went into the street and down the sewer drain, just out arm’s reach. I told the boys that the ball was in the pit and to forget about it. They quickly got a new ball and continued the game. It was in that moment looking at a ball just out of my grasp, stuck in a pit, that this psalm resonated with me. It begins with a plea for help that he would not be forgotten, dead to God, using the imagery of the Pit. This prayer was a desperate plea to not end up silent, stuck in the Pit, separated from God. By verse 6, the psalmist thanks God for hearing his plea. Have you ever felt like you were trapped in the sewer with no help from God? All alone in a pit? Forgotten by God? Psalm 28 reminds us that though we may end up in the Pit, God’s arm is never too short to reach us.
Prayer Focus: Next time your life ends up in the pit, remember Psalm 28. Add it to your PrayList.
– Patrick
Summer is a time to play outside. From riding bikes to swimming to playing a pickup game of baseball, children are playing everywhere in our neighborhood. I was playing a “sandlot” baseball game with my son and his friends recently when the baseball inadvertently went into the street and down the sewer drain, just out arm’s reach. I told the boys that the ball was in the pit and to forget about it. They quickly got a new ball and continued the game. It was in that moment looking at a ball just out of my grasp, stuck in a pit, that this psalm resonated with me. It begins with a plea for help that he would not be forgotten, dead to God, using the imagery of the Pit. This prayer was a desperate plea to not end up silent, stuck in the Pit, separated from God. By verse 6, the psalmist thanks God for hearing his plea. Have you ever felt like you were trapped in the sewer with no help from God? All alone in a pit? Forgotten by God? Psalm 28 reminds us that though we may end up in the Pit, God’s arm is never too short to reach us.
Prayer Focus: Next time your life ends up in the pit, remember Psalm 28. Add it to your PrayList.
– Patrick