Baby Boy Prayer

Dear Lord,

Please forgive us for all our sins we have brought upon us. And look down upon us with forgiveness for all our sins we will have in the future. I know you understand that brothers ain’t perfect, but we try Lord. We try to keep our heads up in bad times. This is a bad time. Show us the way. And if you can’t show us the way, then forgive us for being lost.

This prayer was from the movie Baby Boy starring Tyrese Gibson and Omar Gooding. I think it's a great prayer because it's asking for forgiveness before you sin. When you look deeper, this prayer can also mean you want forgiveness for deliberate sin (the kind you have no remorse for and commit just because). If you sin with no remorse, then I don't know if you should pray this kind of prayer. God knows our intentions long before we act on them so in a sense, asking him to look down on us for forgiveness for the sins we will have in the future is kind of a protective covering because God won't be surprised when you foul up; after all, he made us. It's almost like the Fall Of Man, God knew Adam & Eve would eat the forbidden fruit and already had a backup plan just in case: Sending Jesus to die on the cross for us. That's what I got from the Baby Boy prayer, a prayer of advance forgiveness.