Day 200

Father, 

You are eager to forgive! You come with heavy doses of mercy. You are gracious and merciful and will not turn away Your face from us! THANK YOU for that! What a relief! We praise You for your forgiving heart that joyfully receives the imperfect gifts we offer to You!

Have mercy on me, a sinner. Like Hezekiah, we’ve made some hasty decisions⁠—we’ve traded valuable things to win approval or to security instead of looking to You for those things. We turn from our sinfulness and hastiness and foolishness, and we turn to YOU, the God who can give us righteousness and patience and wisdom. Make our hearts clean and our minds wise. And thank You for the eternal pardon that has already been granted to us in Christ Jesus. 

Help us to extend Your kindness and Your welcome to those we consider enemies, like Hezekiah did with the other tribes, and to those who don’t have it all together, like he did with those who were unclean at Passover. When he extended those invitations to join in worshipping You, hearts were softened and You were glorified. He demonstrated Your heart to the world around him, and we want to do that too! 

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. 

We love You too. Amen.

Day 201

Father, 

You met us when we were not Your people. We were sinners, born into separation from You because we were born into sinfulness. Our sin required a punishment, but You had mercy on us and adopted us into Your family through the death of Christ and the indwelling of His Spirit! We praise You for that! WHAT MERCY! We are Your People, the children of the Living God! And we praise You and thank You for all the ways Your beauty pours over our story. 

Have mercy on me, a sinner. We repent of our sins and turn to You and we ask You to make our hearts clean. Like Gomer, we have run from Your love and rejected Your goodness. We’ve gone to other lovers who feel more familiar and less intimidating, because we misunderstand Your heart and doubt Your love. But You relentlessly pursue us in our sin, and love us into repentance. So here we are, repenting⁠—turning from our lesser loves and returning to YOU, fully.  

Would You speak the truth of our new name over us? Remind us that we are YOURS. Fully. Forever. Remind us over and over again, Spirit. When our flesh and our enemy tries to lure us back to old familiar ways, would You knit our hearts to You even tighter? Anchor us down in Your truth and Your love.

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. 

We love You too. Amen.

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