Psalm 28:1-2
To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.

When I read this today I thought about how I have to call upon the Lord almost every moment when I’m around others. I call on him for help just to listen to someone talking, when they complain against me, when they are hard to love, when they keep sinning in the same ways and don’t change, when I can’t stand being around them for even one more second.

I cry out to God, because he understands my selfishness and the hatred in my heart, and loves me anyway, and he changes my heart for them. Somehow he miraculously gives me power to love people when I humble myself just to cry out for help and say, “Please God I need your help to love this person. If you don’t help me, I’ll become like people who don’t know you, who treat people based on how they can benefit them.”

I am just seeing more and more how easy it is to be honest with God. I just tell him what he already knows. I just humble myself enough to tell him what’s going on in my head and heart toward him and other people, until he brings me to a place where, like in Psalm 28, I ask for his help.

Psalm 28:6 Blessed be the LORD! For he has heard my pleas for mercy.