Daily Prayer - God cannot be mocked

Good Friday morning, my friends.

 

Isn't it easy to put on a good front so that people think you are soooo righteous?  Or is that just me?  It is all the easier for me to come across that way to those of you who don't see me every day.  But I know what my heart is truly like.  And I thank God that it is His righteousness that is bestowed upon me, because my own is like "filthy rags" (Isaiah 64:4-9)

 

Yes, others may be fooled, but God is not.  "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows." (Galations 6:7)

 

As long as we remember that we are constantly in desparate need of salvation we will be effective Kingdom builders.  When we lose that we become like the Pharisee in The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector who says, "God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get." (Luke 18:11-12). 

 

Although this may sound like self-flagellation, it really isn't.  It brings peace because we can give up trying to do it (get into heaven) on our own merits, and instead accept the "get in free" voucher that Jesus has procured for us.

 

 

Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

Bruce 

Father,

 

You know the true content of my heart though others may be fooled by my words and actions. 

 

So it is with You that I must keep a short account and pray from a genuine heart that I will act in accordance to Your revealed will and think upon those things which are honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report. 

 

Thoughts form in my mind before they are spoken from my mouth, so I pray that You would purify my mind, keep my tongue from evil, and enable me to stand for that which is honorable in Your sight so that I pass the tests of life and hear you say, "I am pleased with your integrity." 

 

In the name of Jesus I pray.  Amen.

 

(http://adailyprayer.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/a-prayer-for-integrity-3/)

 

 

 

Bruce MacPherson

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