Question about Psalm 66:18

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“If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.”

If a sinful habit is due to compulsion, that means that you’re not cherishing it in your heart, and he’ll still listen, right?
 
“If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.”

If a sinful habit is due to compulsion, that means that you’re not cherishing it in your heart, and he’ll still listen, right?
I do not know the answer to your question.

But I do know that my life was a sinful one in several respects when I prayed for help, and the Lord did listen (as He always does, I believe) and He answered and led me toward home.

May God bless you,
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Any sin must be confessed and penance done. With a habitual sin it is advisable to consult your spiritual confessor for guidance. God always listens but we must do our part to change our lives to conform to His will for us.
 
Agreed with the above. Also, it’s not a good idea to try to interpret every single line in the Psalms as an explicit teaching. The Psalms are songs, not a catechism, and many times they just express one way of feeling about a subject. So we don’t read Ps. 55 to say that there are evildoers who cannot change their ways, and let’s wish them dead and sent to Hell. We don’t read Psalm 109 and pray to God that our enemies’ children will wind up as miserable and unloved vagrant beggars.

And remember that – although a thousand years in God’s eyes are merely a yesterday, Ps. 90:4 – the Psalms were in fact written a thousand years before God sent Christ to be a new covenant for mankind. For what it’s worth, too, if you feel overcome with your burden of wicked deeds, read Psalm 65. If you feel caught by the snares of Sheol, read Psalm 116. And so on.
 
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