Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.Clearly God appreciates a humble, contrite heart. But true humility can be difficult! Fortunately, the Bible gives us wonderful examples of humility and contrition in what are known as the "Penitential Psalms." Those psalms are numbers 6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, and 143.
The most famous of these is Psalm 51, David's confession of his sin with Bathsheba.
The attitudes put forth in these psalms are emblematic of how we should approach God. After all, as James puts it (3:2, ESV),
We all stumble in many ways.So today, consult one of these psalms, and then reflect upon it during prayer.
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