Day 093

Father, 

We praise You for being a tender-hearted God, who grows impatient over the misery of Your people. The fact that Your heart is so compassionate and moved to action when we suffer—even though we’ve rebelled and deserve it—it shows us all the more why You are worthy of our worship. We are so grateful that the God of the universe has a heart like Yours.

Like the Israelites, our hearts are easily led astray to the point that we worship almost anything. We want to find our identity in so many things apart from You and we repent of that. We repent of being hasty—like the men who appointed Jephthah over their army AND like Jephthah himself, who made a foolish vow as he sought Your help. We repent of trying to bargain with You, as though we have anything to offer TO You that didn’t first come FROM You. We repent of not knowing You and Your Word well enough to know how to view Your rightly and walk in Your ways.

Keeping drawing us into Your Word, God. Keep setting us right where we’ve gone off track in our beliefs and values. Grant us discernment. Grant us repentance. Make us a people who are so laser-focused on You and Your Kingdom that nothing else has power over us. Prompt us to seek direction from You, and give us wisdom where we need it most, God.

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.

SHOW NOTES: 

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