"A Prayer for Help"

"For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me." (Psalms 40:12) So, just in case you were wondering what kind of help David is praying for, let's just say it requires a whole lot of mercy and grace; mercy to be forgiven and grace to be strong. We can some times get carried way in our sickness of sin, kind of like a hypochondriac who is always looking for symptoms of physical failure, and then become overly alarmed by the smallest hint of anything they think might be there; only with sin, it is not a matter of whether or not it is really there, because it is, but it is more a matter of how much we dwell upon it; because, making our sins the focus of our attention is not what leads to a victorious life in Christ: Jesus died for those sins, and victory has been won and done; now it's time to move on being strong in what He has done! I am not saying that we should not be concerned with sin, because it needs to be confessed as soon as it is revealed in us; but we should not walk around as if we have been conquered by something that has already been defeated at the cross. Basically, God is saying, "Help Me help you", when it comes to having victory over sin, because it requires that we press into God for the help that we need; in other words, sin is not where it's at where we find strength, but it is in God that our strength is found, so focus upon Him not the sin! You might detect a little attitude coming up in my post today; well, it stems from all the years that I have let the enemy fool me by making me think that I am not worthy, with his, "Who do you think you are" kind of accusations; when all along, it's not about me, it's about Jesus Christ and who He is; I am just a sinner that is hidden in Christ! We take our eyes off of that, and we find ourselves very vulnerable for feeling defeated and ashamed, just as David is expressing here in the Psalm, "mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up". Don't you know that you are a son of the KING? KING JESUS... "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places: according as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundations of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherefore He hath made us accepted in the Beloved: in Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace; wherein He hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself: that in the dispensation of the fulness of times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him." (Ephesians 1:3-10)