Psalm 6:1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
Psalm 6 is For the director of music again and this time With stringed instruments. It is also According to sheminith, a musical direction that we do not know the exact meaning of. It is another psalm of David, context unknown, although it would fit very well as the next in a sequence all to do with the Absalom story. David is again very much aware of his enemies and is praying for God's mercy and deliverance from his situation which is going on longer than he feels he can bear. Of course, the very lack of exact reference universalises the plea to all God's servants (as David clearly intended) and no doubt gives us an insight into the suffering that Christ himself knew on earth and how he dealt with it. The opening verse is a prayer to pray in trouble. Troubles inevitably bring to mind our sins and certainly if God chooses to rebuke us for our sins or discipline us in wrath through trouble then we have an unenviable situation. We should pray therefore that he will not treat us as we deserve but forbear to be angry and show mercy. We have no argument for this but our own weakness and his great kindness. Many can testify that is how they have been treated, whether they prayed for it very earnestly or not. Christ, on the other hand, knew God's wrath even though there was no sin but the sin of his people.
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