Whose Cause Do We Plead?

So this morning I read Psalm 74 and found the psalmist making his request to God on the basis on His character and convenant. Sure, the psalmist wanted to see deliverance from his enemies, and descrution come to them, but he made his request known to God on the basis that God's name and covenant were on the line. How often to we come before God and ask that He do something that we want and forget to determine whose cause we plead? Are we here to plead our own cause, or God's?

As witnesses, ambassadors, for Christ, daily our cause to plead should be for the glory of God, and the salvation of the children of God. We are not here on this earth to make ourselves more, but rather the opposite. He must increase, we must decrease, says John.

One final point, one of important application. Today, as you pray, think about whose benefit you seek. If the benefit is God's, you too will be benefitted. If it is solely your own, this will likely not bring the glory to God, and He is not likely to give you your request.

Psalm 74:22 "Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily."