“I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.” (Song of Songs 7:10)
“Do you know that you are desirable? Do you know how deeply I love you and desire you? You are my beloved, my bride, my lover, my heart’s desire. You are the apple of my eye. Don’t let the world around you, or the doubt within you, convince you of anything else.”
My you know the depths of his love and affection today.
“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:6-8)
When will we ever get it through our heads
that apart from Jesus we are utterly powerless?
We keep trying to do it on our own, but we just keep “missing the mark”
(the definition of the Greek word for sin).
And we will continue to miss the mark until we surrender our
attempts to do it ourselves and submit to the power of Jesus to claim the
victory for us that we can never achieve for ourselves. We can’t, but he can. Lord Jesus, have mercy on us!
Lord
Jesus, maybe I keep failing because I keep trying to do it on my own. I am powerless to do anything but miss the mark
apart from you. Lord Jesus, have mercy
on me!
