UNDER ATTACK
Today's reading: Numbers 16, Mark 15:1-32, Psalm 54

"Come with great power, O God, and rescue me! Defend me with your might. O God, listen to my prayer. Pay attention to my plea. For strangers are attacking me; violent men are trying to kill me. They care nothing for God." Psalm 54:1-3 NLT

There are times we cry out to God to rescue us.  From those who like to push our buttons. To whisk us way from the folks who rub us the wrong way. From the people who hurt our feelings, bruise our self-esteem and throw sticks and stones our way.

But what do we pray when our enemy, the one we need rescuing from, is us?

When we look in the mirror and spew negative comments.

When we diss ourselves for mistakes.

When we belittle and bemoan our own feeble attempts.

Yes, sometimes, we are our own worst enemies.

We can pray the same prayer David prayed as armies surrounded him, defeat looked certain and he was feeling under attack...

'Come to me with great power, O God, and rescue me! Defend me with all your might. O God, listen to my prayer. For I am attacking myself! I am forgetting who I am in You. Who You created me to be. How great You believe I am. Do I care nothing for You?'