May I come before your throne EVERYDAY and humbly bow before the vastness of your majesty. Even being able to enter Your courts, Lord I pray that you strip away any tinge of self-sufficiency within me...may every moment remind me of my sufficiency in you Jesus alone...let like the tax collector and the prostitute. Who am I to say that I am better than them...for all have sinned and fallen short of yr glory...and my pride likewise is more offensive in your eyes than anything else.
O Jesus, may the cross remind me of the great price you paid in order that I may live and that it is my self-sufficiency that placed you on that cross the first place. Lord, break me beyond recognition so that it is no longer I that live but you Jesus in me...that I will not need to do anything out of my own effort but by your power...even in the normal, mundane, "non-spiritual" aspects of my daily life.
Help me be like the sinful tax collector that has to rely daily upon your grace than the self-sufficient pharisee that is satisfied with just relying on you only enough to become righteousness so that he can self-assure himself of his worth rather than relying on your worth.
"But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things...so that no one may boast before him."
- 1 Corinthians 1:27-29
Make me nothing so that you can be everything in my life. Amen.
Make me nothing so that you can be everything in my life. Amen.
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Ya...I know it is still general. But thanks for reminding me to push further in...not to stop at the shallow waters.
I trust that you will grow in Him. Jesus, our source of life and strength.
littlelamb will grow and become lamb and maybe a shepherd as an instrument, led by the Ultimate Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Be Blessed!
Thanks dears. I pray and ask the same for you too. =)
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