Father,
You are God, protector, provider, and redeemer. You provide us with an endless supply of blessings that we are not even aware of, and we choose to curse Your name. Please, sow in us repentant hearts and love for our fellow man. We ask for your continued grace and mercy, and the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives to shape us in the image of Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. We ask that You write on our hearts Your law of love, forgiveness, and holiness. We ask that You renew our hearts and minds daily as we seek you, as a body, a nation, a church, and a world.
We ask all this in Your glorious Name, and in the indwelling of Your Holy Spirit, and in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ.
Amen
You know, sometimes, just sometimes, I wish God was wrong. No, not in the sense of wishing where it was actually true that He was wrong, cause I know that that's impossible and that that would have disastrous side effects(I'm looking at you, Dogma). I wish in the sense of I longingly imagine what would happen if sometimes, when the Lord is convicting me of something I'm doing wrong, that just once, I'd be right and He'd be wrong.
Then I realize that if I had the right attitude, I'd never wish that. Then I ask for forgiveness, for both the thing God's convicting me of, and for wishing He's wrong.
It's at these times, after I've asked for forgiveness and I'm seeking to improve myself and remove the things God's convicting me of from my life, that I'm amazed at His wondrous plan. You know, I can barely plan out my day. I know the traffic reasonably well on the roads I regularly travel, I know what things I need to do next at work to get the experiments I want done in a timely manner. I have a pretty good idea of what commitments I will have each day to take up my time. And yet, daily it seems, I can't even tell you in the morning, how much time I'll end up doing things other than what I had planned. This isn't to say that I don't get a lot of productive work done, just that things are constantly changing, and I'm having to adapt.
And then there's God's plan. His plan is as old as time itself, although technically it's older because it has existed since before time, but immeasurably older because it's impossible to say how much time it existed before time existed... One of those funny things to contemplate. Anyways, His plan is older than time itself, and yet, He knew exactly how things would go down from the beginning of time to the end of time, even with allowing for us to have free will, and yet He never has to erase a mark out of His calendar. He's never fretting about too much traffic, or a spill, or a missed opportunity. He has this great plan, and because it's His, it's perfect, and it's guaranteed not to fail. And, I'm impressed. I mean really impressed. In the words of the psalmist, "Show me Your ways, Oh Lord. Teach me Your paths." His plan is sooo cool, it just inspires me, and then I think about that that's part of His plan, too! We serve an amazing God!
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