Day 221

Father, 

You are the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. You lead with love. You overflow with love. You work justice and righteousness, and You delight in the truth being made manifest in those areas. We praise You for the fact that Your standards are PRECISE when it comes to these things. You never cook the books.

Meanwhile, we’re mostly concerned with justice only for ourselves. We want others to act righteously but it’s okay if we stretch the truth or bend the limits. We want to be admired and empowered more than we want to be loved, because love leaves us vulnerable. We acknowledge and confess our sins to you, God, and we repent.

Align our hearts with Yours. Prompt us toward humility. Show us what it means to be angry at our own sin and heartbroken over others’ so that we don’t slip into prideful thinking and arrogant speech. Equip us to lead with love the way that You do. Help us to demonstrate YOU to the world around us—steadfast love, justice, and righteousness. 

We surrender our lives to You, Lord—every moment of our day, each decision we make, we yield our will and way to Your perfect will and way. 

We love You too. Amen.

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