Father,
I was among those who were not looking for you (Rom 10:20).
I was not asking for you (Rom 10:20).
I belonged to the kingdom of darkness (Col 1:13).
I was your enemy (Rom 5:10).
Yet your message of good news has gone out to the whole earth,
And your words to the ends of the world (Ps 19:4).
And though I lacked understanding, you revealed yourself to me (Rom 10:20).
By your grace, you have planted faith in me (Eph 2:8).
You have established belief in my heart and drawn a confession from my mouth:
Jesus is Lord; he is risen from the dead (Rom 10:9).
Make my life to align with this confession.
As you have planted faith in me, so also plant and grow gratitude,
For every good and perfect gift comes from you and you alone (Jer 1:17).
You are great, Oh God, and greatly to be praised (Ps 145:3).
May the whole of my life be lived in gratitude for the grace you’ve given in the person and work of your Son.
Amen.
"The Christian is like a man who has the right tune in his head but cannot remember all the words. That is not to say that Christians are perfect, but that they live according to the Spirit. The present tense of the Greek peripatein, "to walk" or live, suggesting continued action, forward progress, a pattern of behavior under the Spirits leading."
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