Day 105

Father, 

We praise You for making us radiant. You are the one who takes away our shame and makes our faces and our dispositions brighter in this ever-darkening world. You are what sets us apart to shine Your light into those dark spaces. Your light is always stronger than the dark, and we praise You for it! We praise You for all the beautiful things David talked about today—Your nearness, Your justice, Your protection. You are infinitely good to us.

Have mercy on me, a sinner. We repent of our sins and turn to You and we ask You to make our hearts clean. Like David, we know there are sins we’re completely unaware of. Ways we’ve dishonored You and doubted Your character. Some of those thoughts and actions have become so automatic and natural for us that we don’t even evaluate them anymore. We repent not only of our sins, but also of our callousness.

Where we’ve grown comfortable in our sin, where it has become our routine way of existing, would you prompt us to better ways, brighter ways, ways that point us back to you? When our complaining becomes commonplace, when our gossiping is just the normal way we communicate with friends, when we let our fears rum rampant and unchecked in our minds, would You speak a louder truth to us? Fix the ways we talk to ourselves and the ways we talk to others. Keep our tongues from evil and our lips from speaking deceit. Fix our hearts, God. We can’t do it. You own our hearts and You live in our hearts, and we are desperate for Your renewing work. May we look to You and be made radiant. Remind us of who You are!

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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