Oh, you who are afflicted, pray to God in those psalms; not merely in
the words of them, but in the spirit of them. And to do that, you
must get from God the spirit in which David wrote them--the Spirit of
God. Pray for that Spirit; for the spirit of patience, which made
David wait God's good time to right him, instead of trying, as too
many do, to right himself by wrong means; for the spirit of love,
which taught David to return good for evil; for the spirit of fellow-
feeling, which taught David to care for others as well as himself;
and in that spirit of love, do you pray for others while you are
praying for yourself. Pray for that Spirit which taught David to
help and comfort those who were weaker than himself, that you in your
time may be able and willing to comfort and help those who are weaker
than yourselves. And above all, pray for the Spirit of faith, which
made David certain that oppression and wrong-doing could not stand;
that the day must surely come when God would judge the world
righteously, and hear the cry of the afflicted, and deliver the
outcast and poor, that the man of the world might be no more exalted
against them. Pray, in short, for the Spirit of Christ; and then be
sure He will hear your prayers, and answer them, and show Himself a
better friend, and a truer King to you, than ever David showed
himself to those poor Jews of old.
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