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“You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?”
Sinclair Ferguson, one of my favorite modern Christian authors, comments on Psalm 51:
In asking for “mercy,” David, you are asking that God will show it to you, but withdraw it from Jesus.
In asking to experience God’s “unfailing love,” you are asking that Jesus will feel it has been removed.
In asking to taste God’s “great compassion,” [...]