Create A New Hope, Heart, Life In Me Today

Lord, this one thing—my spoken and unspoken need of You.  “Poor in Spirit” describes my understanding of myself.  I come to You out of complete necessity. 

-Oswald Chambers.

But now, Lord, what do I look for?

            My Hope is in you.

Save me from all my transgressions;

            Do not make me the scorn of fools.

I was silent; I would not open my mouth,

            For you are the one who has done this.

Remove your scourge from me;

            I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

You rebuke and discipline men for their sin;

            You consume their wealth like a moth –

            Each man is but a breath

Hear my prayer, O Lord,

            Listen to my cry for help;

            Be not deaf to my weeping.

For I dwell with you as an alien,

            A stranger as all my fathers were.

Look away from me, that I may rejoice again

            Before I depart and am no more.

-Psalm 39:7-13

Filled with the Hope of Jesus Christ, I head out into this day.  May my life touch one other in a way that would bring them closer to God.  This time that is so short is full of the battle of the interior, and I pray that God wins that battle, in me and in others.  Lately I have been quite down on myself because I seem unable to get to the place I don’t struggle with my interior that wants to be self-gratifying.  I am losing that battle and I have not figured out to let God fight it for me.  I do not know how to “overcome” although I know He made me to be an “over comer.”  I steel His glory from my life.  I cannot shake off this thing that hinders.  I am broken and poor in spirit.  I turn all my righteousness and sinfulness over to You Lord, and my plea is that you will restore me.  Make me new again; forgive me for my failure, for my flesh that wages so hot a war inside of me.  Be victorious in me Lord; teach me how to gain the victory over sin in my life!  Lord I need you, in spoken and unspoken ways.  Stir up inside of me a double portion of your Spirit, and lead me out into the great life in Christ you have ordained for me.

Father I am yours, I pray your tender mercies over my life and my family today.  Father I am truly at odds against myself and I am stuck.  Help me get unstuck with my brokenness and turn it into glory Lord… Let your Glory so fill me all around me see you shining through!  Lord God I want so desperately to make a difference for you, teach me how to do it!