So Crooked Are We

Monday, January 10, 2022

God Creates All That is Beautiful

and

That Includes All That is Crooked,

We Pray That God Will

Straighten Us and Our Enemies Out

Before It’s Too Late.

Psalm 19:13

Keep back your servant also from the insolent; do not let them have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive commendation from God.

Words of Grace For Today

There are so many ways to ruin one’s own life, and the life of those around one, so many ways.

We pray that God will save us from these many ways,

and that we will trust God’s forgiveness each of the many times we still mess up lives, and

that we will trust God’s forgiveness for each of the many times each other person messes up lives, even our life.

That is difficult to do, when those that mess up one’s life do it with great authority and clear intention and dark guile.

That is even more difficult to do when the lives the others mess up are the children’s lives, especially when it is done with great authority and clear intention and dark guile.

Therefore we pray that God will help us not become insolent, or judgmental, or arrogant, or … well there are so many ways to be that will lead us to ignore God’s Grace.

So we pray, each day, that we will rely on God’s Grace to guide us, especially as we deal with those who would mess up our lives and the lives of the children … and

that children so messed with, will come to know and trust God’s generous Grace and steadfast love for them and for all people.

We have done our work, sacrificed all that we have, in order to protect the children, and those with great authority and clear intention and dark guile have brought our efforts and sacrifice to naught.

Now all that is left is to trust God’s Spirit to find a way to show the children a life that is filled with Grace, forgiveness, love, and hope; a life that is not fully dependent on money, power, or fame; a life that depends only on God’s will for us.

Today, there is work to do. God’s work to bring Grace, forgiveness, love and hope to bear on so many lives that are lived so foreign to all goodness from God.