Day 183

Father, 

We praise You for Your heart, even when we can’t see Your hand at work. So often, You provide in ways that are invisible to track, where we can’t see any progress, just results. You must love to surprise us! And even when things don’t turn out the way we hoped or asked You for, we know that what we consider earthly losses are still eternal victories in Your economy, so we praise You even for the kindness we won’t see or understand in this life. 

Sometimes when You’re at work behind the scenes, we doubt Your presence or Your ability or Your goodness. We question Your justice. How dare we. Like Ahaziah, we reject Your counsel and seek out others who will tell us what we want to hear. And for all of those things we repent. Have mercy on me, a sinner.

God, we have Your Spirit in us—fully and forever. The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives in us, and we praise You for that! Would You remind us that Your victory has been established, and is certain? We walk in the freedom of knowing You, being marked by Your name and filled with Your Spirit. Remind us of that when we forget! We will certainly be tempted to forget it today, God, so prompt us when we begin to walk by the flesh and not by Your Spirit.

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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