Most precious Lord,
You know my heart. You know every nook and cranny of it. You know my selfish heart, my preocuppied mind, my sinful nature, my lazy tendencies.
But Father, I am comforted by the hope that you know my innermost being. You know of my capacity to love and for you to grow me beyond my sinful ways...not because I am capable of doing it on my own but because you love me and you care to show me. Lord, you check my spirit, You give me fresh eyes and ears to see and hear through You and not my own ways.
Lord, my heart flip flops on what I think I want and trying to hear you and what you want. Father, but I praise you mightly for you are taking this selfish heart and making it swell for what I see before me. Lord forgive me for pushing the little arms away when I was trying to fix something, not realizing I was missing a most precious gift of love. Father, I'm so grateful you showed me quickly, with a look from another, a sadness in my spirit but a gentle love of truth that allowed me to repent and ask forgiveness of a little heart that is so quick to forgive and love. Father, may your grace and mercy cover these little ones, this family, this husband. May your grace and mercy cover my mistakes. Father, may your grace and mercy cover me, teaching me, helping me, forgiving me...loving me.
Father, may I be a light for you. May your love be evident through me, breaking through the life that was once dead but is now alive, only because of your saving grace through the gift of the blood shed on the cross by Jesus Christ.
Thank you Lord, that you take me as I am, sinful, filthy, blemished and all. With you, I am washed white as snow, not because I deserve it, but simply...because you love me. Lord, teach me to love. Forgive me, when I fall so very short because I don't want to give. Forgive me, and thank you for reminding me that our days are numbered, that my days are blessings, filled with Your blessings, that I humbly have the opportunity to be part of. May I love with the fullness of Your Spirit, with Your Heart...goodness is in me, the fruit of Your Spirit, for You are my Lord and Savior.
Thank you Father, I love you, thank you for yet another chance, and for your Grace, your Mercy.
You are Mighty!
Love,
your daughter:), in Jesus most precious name, Amen. |
