Day 096

Father, 

We praise You for being the ONLY source of deep, lasting, sustaining joy! You’re it! Our hearts know the truth!

But our hearts are forgetful, God. We recoil at these stories of wickedness we read today, but we forget that we’ve committed similar sins against You. We’ve been selfish and arrogant and disregarded the needs of others. In our own way, we’ve fought for what we wanted regardless of what it cost others. We repent of that. And we repent of the arrogance that prompts us to compare our sins to other people’s sins⁠—as though we don’t need the same blood of Jesus to cover us too. Without the death of Your Son Jesus, our sins would separate us from intimacy with You forever! We are just as guilty as the Levite, just as guilty as the Benjamin leaders — of different sins, but of the same rebellious hearts.

Teach us what faithfulness to You looks like. Today, when our hearts wander off into tiny rebellions that we’re tempted to justify— when we feel superior to the coworker who annoys us, when we feel smarter than the person who can’t drive with our same level of skill or awareness, when we feel smug over the fact that we didn’t make the poor choice that our spouse did—would You remind us that those tiny rebellions are rooted in our pride and arrogance? Would You draw us in by the truth that we are completely unloveable and unworthy but WILDLY loved and accepted nonetheless because of Jesus? We can lay our pride to rest! It only drives a wedge in our intimacy with You and cripples our ability to love others well. 

Help us never to do what is right in our OWN eyes. Help us never to try to live OUR truth. Instead, help us surrender our lives to You, Lord—every moment of our day, each decision we make. Help us yield our will and way to Your perfect will and way. 

We love You too. Amen.

SHOW NOTES: 

Host: Tara-Leigh Cobble

Writers: Callie Summers & Tara-Leigh Cobble

Sound Engineer: Allison Congden

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