Be Merciful To Me!

I was reading in Luke 18:9-14 this morning.  It is the story of the two men who went to the temple to pray one day.  One of the men, a Pharisee, began his prayer by saying, "God, I thank you that I am not like other people..."  Obviously, he had some arrogance issues!  The other man, a tax collector, prayed, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner."  It's hard to do sometimes but our prayers should be more like the tax collector's prayer and less like the Pharisee's prayer.  So I pray today, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner."