CAPTION: Photo by Gisela Giardino. This photo is under a Creative Commons license. My heart hardens with this transgression,
It is sad and does not want to face reality.
It wants to protect itself from pain, guilt and shame;
It knows it has failed and can’t accept defeat.
O, Lord help my heart come to you once again.
Break through and pierce my heart and make it yours.
Shatter the callous wall it builds against you and
Destroy its evil ways with your love, grace and mercy.
Show me the truth again and take me home.
I long to be whole and to find my peace in you.
Help me win the battle with my stubborn heart
And set me free from my chains. I need you and
Want to worship you in spirit and truth! Amen.
"It happens so regularly that it's predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up. I truly delight in God's commands, but it's pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge. I've tried everything and nothing helps. I'm at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn't that the real question?
"The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different." - Romans 7:21-25, The Message
(A prayer for when the heart wanders and wants to go its own way. Our Lord can help us in these troubled times as well. He can mold us and change us even when our heart is stuck in its ways.)
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