Daily Worship

Fragile People

October 23, 2013 0 0

2 Corinthians 5:16-21

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!  All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:  that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

“You shall have no other gods before me”

Today I say sorry. 
I have many other gods.

I  worry about what I look like
and would rather spend more time on my make-up than on my bible reading.
I worry about what others think of me
and I often do things that please them instead of you.

Today I say sorry.

Because you have given me a good job yet I never have enough money.
My credit card is full and my over draft has reached its limit.
Yet I still spend. I plan my next purchase and research my new gadgets.
The newest and best and shiniest and biggest is ridiculously important to me
even though I don’t want it to be.
I find it so hard to give my money away.

Today I say sorry

Because I waste so much time on the internet.
I am shocked with my lack of will power.
Over and over again I look at things that do not please you.
I spend many hours sneakily stalking people on Facebook
and know things about people I should not have found out.
Celebrities and gossip can consume my mind. 

Today I say sorry

I place too much importance on my job. 
I am really good at it and people like and respect me.
I have power at work and people do what I say.
I get paid well and people invite me to give my opinion.
I am valued and respected... the company would not work well if I left.

Today I say sorry

Because behind closed doors I am very different to the image is project to my friends.
I shout at my children, my patience is too thin, I eat too much and think nasty thoughts.
I am so lazy. I hate recycling and cooking proper food.
I am grumpy and wasteful and mean.
However, when I paint on my smile and walk into the world... I let them think I am really great.

 

Today I seek truth, integrity and beauty.
My prayer this morning is that I place you as the highest in my life,
that in all of my actions,
my thoughts and my words,
I glorify the one who made me.
I know I will flounder,
I know I will fail,
but my intention today is to try, to lean on your grace
and be the best that I can be.