As the Holy Bible says, God's people are "stiff necked.” I try not to be, but I am. It makes me grateful for the ancient plea for God to listen to my prayer and forgive.

  “But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth?

Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built! Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O Lord my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you, that your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place. And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.

2 Chronicles 6:18-21 ESV