A Concord Pastor Comments: Monday Morning Offering: 7/13

7/12/20

Monday Morning Offering: 7/13

Good morning, good God!

Today I come to you, offering my faults for your healing,
and to pray you'll challenge me to grow...

   I offer you all my lame excuses, Lord:
      challenge me to honesty with others and myself...

   I offer you my selfishness:
      challenge me to watch for and respond to others' needs...

   I offer you my jealousy:
      challenge me to gratitude for what's already mine...

   I offer you my laziness:
      challenge me and kick-start me to finally get a move on...

   I offer you any prejudice in my heart that I'm blind to:
open my mind, my eyes, my soul to see what I need to see...

   I offer you my wastefulness:
      challenge me to prudently conserve and not misuse...

   I offer you my desire to have much more than I need:
      challenge me to sacrifice, restraint and moderation...

   I offer you my lustful heart:
      challenge me to center on what's clean and pure and true...

   I offer you my prejudice:
      challenge me to fairness and to just, impartial insight...

   I offer you my self-pity:
challenge me to mindfulness and honest self-acceptance...

   I offer you my vanity and pride:
      challenge me to modesty, self-knowledge and humility...

   And I offer you my hasty words and thoughtless deeds:
      challenge me to patience, discretion and serenity...

I offer you my faults, Lord, and pray you'll challenge me
   with truth, with grace, with wisdom:
      with your healing, saving word...

Amen.