Day 218

Father, 

You are a restorer! You give us what we could never earn and You do what we could never accomplish! And we praise You for it! We’re so encouraged by these words: The King of Israel, the LORD is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil. When Zephaniah wrote those words, You were living among Your people, promising to restore them after the exile, and they found hope in those words. But we are living in an even greater reality than they could ever imagine, because NOW, Your Spirit isn’t just living in our midst, but living in us! We never have to fear evil, because You have defeated it eternally! 

Have mercy on me, a sinner. We don’t want to be like the people of Jerusalem—proud, stubborn, faithless, and autonomous—and yet we are, more often than we’d like to admit. How many times today will we compare ourselves to someone else or wonder what they think of us? That’s our pride, and we repent. How many times will we resist being teachable? That’s our stubbornness, and we repent. We’ll lean into worry and control, putting our faithlessness and autonomy on full display before You. We repent of these things, knowing we’ve earned exile and punishment. But You’ve granted us forgiveness already through the death of Your Son, so please grant us clean hearts, too. 

Grow us in humility, teachability, faith, and surrender! That’s what it looks like to call you Lord and Master. So we do. We surrender our lives to You. You are our Lord—Lord of every moment, Lord of each decision, Lord of the path and the plan. So we humbly yield. 

We love You too. Amen.

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