Psalm 7, 31, and 52

 Some time ago a mom friend proudly said to me, "I don't pray for my kids' safety! I just want to trust God with my kids." Now this may just be one of those Christianese things church people say that I don't get. That's very possible. However, this sounded very much to me like, "If I pray for my kids' safety it means I don't trust God," and that is ridiculous.

You can both trust God completely and also ask him for certain things in your life without worrying that you somehow don't trust Him if you have to ask! I love that in Psalm 31 David praises God for who He is (v. 3-5), reviews the ways God has been faithful in the past (v. 6-8), but still has the honesty to say to God,

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
    my eye is wasted from grief;
    my soul and my body also.

For my life is spent with sorrow,
    and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity,
    and my bones waste away...

 My times are in your hand;
    rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!

David says "I trust you God, my times are in your hand," and, "please rescue me!" in the same song. He was not a perfect man, but he was faithful, honest and vulnerable and I have to think that this was part of his being a man after God's heart. It's OK to imitate these qualities.