New Morning Mercies #64

If you don’t acknowledge sin, you won’t value grace. If you don’t value grace, you won’t seek the forgiveness and rescue it provides.

I will make this confession,

although it hurts to do so:

I am a very skilled

self-swindler.

I am very good at playing

monkey games with my

morality.

All too often, I argue for

righteousness that simply

is not there.

It’s too easy for me

to convince myself that

the wrong

that I have done is not

so wrong after all.

And as I work to minimize

the gravity of my condition,

I in turn devalue

the grace

that is my only hope of

rescue,

transformation,

deliverance.

Lord,

please crush my heart with

the guilt of my sin

so that you may fill it once again

with the glory of your

redeeming grace.

For further study and encouragement: Psalm 38