with you, there is forgiveness

friends,

Brandon Cobb read Psalm 130 during church this Sunday. I don't know about you, but I was hit hard by this passage. What an incredible example of what our prayers should look like! The author had a correct understanding of what our position before God is, and he approached God with humility, praise, hope and faith.

How can this passage influence the way you pray? It could be as simple as going to God in repentance, recognizing the power of His forgiveness and stating the Truth (such as, "For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption").

Psalm 130, ESV

Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!
  O Lord, hear my voice!
 Let your ears be attentive
  to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities,
  O Lord, who could stand?
 But with you there is forgiveness,
  that you may be feared. I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
  and in his word I hope;
 my soul waits for the Lord
  more than watchmen for the morning,
  more than watchmen for the morning.
 O Israel, hope in the LORD!
  For with the LORD there is steadfast love,
  and with him is plentiful redemption.
 And he will redeem Israel
  from all his iniquities.