The Ground on Which a Broken Man Is Heard

Psalm 6 is the prayer of a man too crushed to finish a sentence, weeping every night, unable to tell whether the hand on him is a Father's rod or a hangman's rope, and it asks the question every hurting believer asks in the dark: on what possible ground would God listen to me now? David has nothing to bring, and he does not bring it, because the only plea that has ever worked is "save me for the sake of Your steadfast love" — and you never graduate to a better one. If you have ever prayed and heard nothing back, come and hear what happened between verse 7 and verse 8, when nothing in his circumstances had changed and everything had.