Day 235

Jesus, 

We praise You for Your sacrificial love, You gave Your life in a gruesome death, taking on the punishment for our sins, so that we could be pardoned by the Father. Father, thank You for pointing to our righteousness. You know our sins even more than we do, yet You call us righteous because of Jesus. Spirit, You’re the One who prompts us to repent when we sin, so You must see our sin. And we thank You for seeing it and calling us to repent. 

And we do repent, God. Like Kedar and Hazor, we’ve expected trouble and judgment to pass us by. We’ve been shocked at the consequences because we felt like we didn’t deserve them. What we don’t deserve, God, is Your mercy. But You’ve given it nonetheless, so we continue to ask for it: have mercy on me, a sinner.

Thank You that we can come to You in our sins. We experience Your presence to bless. So we ask for Your blessing—bless us with greater knowledge of Yourself, bless us with the gift of obedience, bless us with an increase of the fruit of Your Spirit who lives in us and demonstrates You to the world around us. The greatest blessing we could ever receive is to be conformed more to the image of Your Son than yesterday. 

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. Your ways are perfect.

We love You too. Amen.

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