'My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.'
2 Corinthians 12:9
A prayer from today's devotional by Beth Moore.
...Because it's before six am
...because we're not yet over hump-day
(hump. still funny.)
...and because it's good stuff.
Today focuses on insecurities, fears and useless inquiries. Fitting for my current state of heart.
Dear Lord,
I ask that you single out everything you entrusted to me as part of my physical and psychological makeup: personal limitations, my appearance, and my God-given disposition. You know what you were doing when you formed me in my mother's womb. Nothing is without purpose. Nothing has thrown off the plan. Every gift, challenge and obstacle is meant to shape the specific destiny you ordained for me before time began. Your intent is to make a wonder out of me and show what you can do through me. You mean to increase the praise that comes to you because of my life. You want to defy the odds in order to make yourself conspicuous in me. Please deliver me from self pity and a life of excuses and rationalizations. Where I've otherwise lapsed into self adoration and self-centeredness instead, help me to recognize my narcissism and no longer tolerate it. Of all things, please don't let it be said that I loved myself too much to fully love anybody else. Please don't let me gain the world but lose my soul.
Even in the midst of these requests, I thank you for working so diligently in my life.
In your name,
Amen.
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