Day 231

Father, 

You have Your sights set on restoration, and we praise You for it! We’ve rebelled, like Judah, and we’ve been shackled to our sin, kept in the dungeon—yet You graciously freed us. You speak kindly to us. You seat us at Your table. You provide for us daily according to our needs as long as we live! You are the gracious and merciful King who rescued us. 

Despite Your abundant goodness to us, sometimes we go put back on the orange jumpsuit. We settle into our prison clothes because they’re so familiar to us. Like the Israelites who were carried out of captivity and dropped into the promised land… we choose sin over You and our affections are captured all over again by things that only want to imprison us. Have mercy on me, a sinner. We repent of our sins and we turn to You.

Would You rid us of these orange jumpsuits? They don’t belong at Your table. They carry the stench of death. You’ve clothed us in robes of righteousness, God. We’ve been washed. We’ve been made clean. When You adopted us into Your family forever, You spoke a new name and new future over us. Help us to remember that. Our truest and most eternal identity will always be Your beloved. 

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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