Daily Prayer - Someone worth dying for?

Good Wednesday morning, my friends.

 

I don't know about you, but I often find myself trying to perform for God:  whether it is writing pithy little blog postings such as this, attending church "every" Sunday, speaking long-winded prayers in my small group, etc., etc.  Do you have your own list?

 

Consider this passage from the book of Ezekiel:

 

I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. And I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you. I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.

Ezekiel 36:24-30

 

Who is speaking?  God.  Who is going to do all these things?  God.  What do we have to do?  Enjoy!

 

God has done it all.  When His Son died on that cross, all of this was achieved.  He has cleansed us, delivered us, fed us physically and spiritually.  It is a gift from Him to you and to me.  All we did, or have to do if you haven't already done so, is accept the gift.

 

My daughter played a song for me yesterday called "Someone Worth Dying For" by MIKESCHAIR. Although not technically a prayer, it can be lifted as one as we meditate on the words and bring them to God.  The lyrics are below.

 

Grace and peace be yours in abundance,
Bruce

 
You might be the wife waiting up at night
You might be the man struggling to provide
Feeling like it's hopeless
 
Maybe you're the son who chose a broken road
Maybe you're the girl thinking you'll end up alone
Praying God, can You hear me?
Oh, God, are You listening?
 
Am I more than flesh and bone?
Am I really something beautiful?
Yeah, I wanna believe
I wanna believe that
 
I'm not just some wandering soul
That You don't see and You don't know
Yeah, I wanna believe, Jesus, help me believe
That I am someone worth dying for
 
I know you've heard the truth that God has set you free
But you think you're the one that grace could never reach
So you just keep asking
Oh, what everybody's asking
 
Am I more than flesh and bone?
Am I really something beautiful?
Yeah I wanna believe
I wanna believe that
 
That I'm not just some wandering soul
That You don't see and You don't know
Yeah, I wanna believe, Jesus, help me believe
That I am someone worth dying for
 
You're worth it, you can't earn it
Yeah, the cross has proven
That You're sacred and blameless
Your life has purpose
 
You are more than flesh and bone
Can't you see, you're something beautiful?
Yes, you gotta believe, you gotta believe
He wants you to see, He wants you to see
 
That you're not just some wandering soul
That can't be seen and can't be known
Yeah, you gotta believe, you gotta believe that you are
Someone worth dying for, oh
 
You're someone worth dying for, oh
You're someone worth dying for
 
(MIKESCHAIR, from the album A Beautiful Life)