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While I don't normally read or pray the "Psalm-Prayer" after every Psalm, today one portion of it from the Office caught my attention:
"We, your children, are weighed down with sin; give us the fullness of your mercy."
That line spoke volumes to me; we are, in fact, weighed down with sin, and only God's great mercy can relieve the crushing burden. Note in the prayer that we don't ask only for a little mercy, but boldly, we ask for what Our Lord has provided through the Cross: the FULLNESS of His mercy.
In prayer, even though we are "weighed down with sin", we still go to Him, prodigal children, humbly demanding our birthright.
It was t hen that it struck me more profoundly than it ever has before; we have nothing...
[None of us is EVER more than we were 'when we first began'...ALL the rest, forever, is 'amazing grace'. Forget that and you are lost.]
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