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Today's reading: Psalm 51-53

"Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me." Psalm 51:10 NLT

This verse has given me pause this morning. It has led me to evaluate my prayers as of late. To think back over them. To consider what I've been praying. Here are some of the snippets from my most recent prayers:

Lord, change them...

God, are you gonna allow them to do this to me...

Sic 'em, Lord... 

Lord, You know they need an attitude adjustment...

I'm ever so eager to pray changes into another's life--but am I as willing to put 'me' in my prayers?

Am I asking God to change how I see others? How I respond to others? How I can look past others choices to their souls?

David, with all the power and might given him by God to be king over all Israel, stopped--and stooped long enough to pray for himself. 

That he be right with the Lord. That he be free from all sin and sinful thoughts.

David started with the three square feet he was ruler over and bent in prayer over that domain before he ever muttered a prayer for anyone else.

I want to follow his example.