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A Prayer for the Downcast
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"We do not know what to pray for as we ought" (Rom. 8:26). That's always true. Seeing the world and God's will, as we do—"in a mirror dimly" (1 Cor. 13:12)—our prayers are always imperfect. But the Spirit "always helps us in our weakness." He "intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words." The Spirit prays for us even when we do not think we are praying. But the Spirit helps us in another way. He records the prayers of those who, like us, are weak.Psalm 142 is "a prayer" (superscription) of a weak man. Even without the psalm we know David is in trouble. He is "in the cave." He wasn't exploring. He was hiding. And while the cave was a literal experience for David it is also a metaphor. We know what being in a cave is like. It's dark, cold, damp. There is often only one way out, but the exit faces the thing we do not want to face.The Spirit gives us this prayer so that the downcast can better know what to pray for when even prayer itself feels like a shot in the dark.
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