Up to my Neck: The Christian Experience of Pleading for…
Psalm 69 is a great Psalm. What hymn comes to mind that you would sing when you are experiencing reproach and shame and discouragement? I can think of a few but not many that speak as frankly as this Psalm speaks. When you’re searching for the words to say, when you feel like you’re drowning and you can't feel the bottom and you can't come up for air, where do you go? Well, one place would be right here in Psalm 69. Before we read and hear God's word, let's pray and ask for His blessing on the reading and preaching of that word. Heavenly Father, this is Your word. It is a blunt word. It expresses the heart of a choice servant, David, when he felt overwhelmed in the very depths of his soul, when he felt abandoned, when he felt shamed beyond the capacity to survive. And…