A prayer to be delivered from the dust
Rev. John Marcus offers an expository meditation on Psalm 119:25-32, connecting the psalmist's prayer for deliverance and strengthening to Christ's redemptive suffering and resurrection. Through careful exegesis, Marcus shows how the believer's experience of quickening and sanctification is grounded entirely in Christ's atoning work, particularly his agony in Gethsemane and death on the cross.
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O Lord, put me not to...
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