You Thought...

"You thought I was altogether like you" - Psalm 50:21b
Lord I find crazy that I actually come to this mindset.  Do I actually perceive you as a God that is like me?  Jesus you are 100% man, but 100% God.  I want to thank you though for understanding me.  I want to say thank you for accepting me just as I am.  I have sinned and will do so til my days come to an end.  I am thankful that Jesus when you were arrest you proved this verse to be true, "These things you have done and I kept silent" (Psalm 50:21a).  Truly I do things wrong and plan out of my own weakness.  I desire to do what I will.  I do come short.  Like Apostle Paul writes, "For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.  For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do-this I keep on doing."

Lord as much as you have been silent in my sin, I do ask to do a work in me that I may carry out what good I desire to do.  Lord today I am meeting with high school students.  Many that have broken families, broken relationships, no hope, no acceptance, shame, guilt, and a broken and contrite soul.  May you give me the eyes to see what you see.  Lord I fall short too, but the cross.  The cross is my beginning of life.  Yes, that is where you died, but you took sin and death with it.  I want to stay amazed by the cross.  I hope to see what Paul saw when it went out into the field.  I want to preach with the power of the resurrection.  Only you can give glory to glory.  May I be your instrument of the living Gospel.

Jesus I know that I do not need to work out my salvation.  I am enjoying this actually.  I really hope to see what can happen.  I just want to be a tool for the kingdom.  So I lift up my young brothers and sister at Etiwanda High School.  I ask that you may bless them with your Spirit and fulfill the great work in them.  Protect them with the power of your Holy Spirit and may they see your glory.

We may think that you are exactly like us, but nah.  You are even more than we can imagine.  May you bend an ear and hand to your children.  Thank you Lord for my time with you.  May I take it to heart and treasure it.  May I read your Word and take joy in my daily bread.  Thank You Jesus.