God is infinitely gracious and knows everything about each of us, every tiny detail. In fact God knows more about us than our very best memories will ever give us. And God will present Himself to us in our lives in His own time and in His own unique ways, and always in most surprising and unexpected ways.
So I lift my heart to You, Oh Lord, and ask humbly
for Your mercy and for Your sufficient grace.
I pray for an eternal relationship with You,
and I know You hear me, and I know that — in You —
I live and have my being.
In You alone is my hope.
In You alone I trust in You for life.
In You alone I trust in Your mercy.
In You alone I trust in Your love.
My heart cries out to You with the prayer
the thief beside You on the Cross prayed to You:
“Jesus, remember me when You come in Your kingdom.”
Dear friends, God’s love and God’s graciousness, God’s complete knowledge of us all should give us cause to hope in Him and to live in complete gratitude to Him. What Jesus did for us all on Good Friday and on Easter Sunday should serve as the most sobering reminder of His great love and graciousness and knowledge and mercy. May this bring us all to our knees in prayer for all that God does for us every single moment.
So today pray in hope, in gratitude, and in love of Him.
Do everything He tells you to do — and do it all for love of Him.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.
From the Bible:
“We love because He first loved us” 1 John 4:19.
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself” Luke 10:27.
“But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us”
Romans 5:8.
“Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations” Deuteronomy 7:9.
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