Good morning, Lord Jesus. Help me start this day and every day centered in Christ, embraced by the Father, and filled with the Holy Spirit. …
“When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars that You have established; what are human beings that You are mindful of them, mortals that You care for them? Yet You have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor. You have given them dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under their feet…. O Lord, Our Sovereign, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!” (Psalm 8:3-9)
In Your sovereignty, You’ve created us in Your image. In Your grace, You’ve called us Your children. In Your mercy, You’re mindful of every thought in our minds and every desire in our hearts. In Your humility, You’ve entrusted dominion over the works of Your hands into our care. In Your audacity, You’ve made us “a little lower than God.”
How majestic is Your name; how marvelous are Your ways; how amazing is Your grace?
Though “all our righteous deeds are as a filthy cloth” compared to the glory and goodness of Your nature, You have chosen to crown us “with glory and honor” (Isaiah 64:6). Though we sin so often and fall so short of the glory of God, You continually forgive us and cleanse us and call us “the righteousness of God” through the blood of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21). Though You know our struggles with selfishness and pride, with false humility and self-righteousness, with insecurity and control, You impart to us Your “power and authority” to “proclaim the Kingdom of God” and to be Your “ambassadors for Christ, since God is making His appeal through us” (Luke 9:1; 2 Corinthians 5:20).
O Lord, give us the power of Your grace and the mercy of Your love to live up to Your expectations. Forgive us when we fail. Encourage us when we doubt. Remind us when we forget. This is Your heart—for us to see ourselves as we are, as You have created us to be. “For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, in order that He might be the firstborn within a large family. And those whom He predestined He also called; and those whom He called He also justified; and those whom He justified He also glorified” (Romans 8:29-30).
In the purposes of Your plans and the sovereignty of Your will, we are all called by grace, created for glory, and predestined for greatness (John 3:16; Romans 11:32; 2 Peter 3:9). All is available for “whosoever will” (Revelation 22:17, KJV). “We are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if, in fact, we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him” (Romans 8:16-17). O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
Friends, Friday Night I'll be preaching the monthly healing service at Pfrimmer's Chapel United Methodist Church, led by my great friend Pastor Tim Johnson. Please pray for us and come join us if you're in the Louisville, KY/Southern Indiana area ( www.pfrimmerschapel.org ).
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