Thoughts for another day

Oct. 23, 2013.

Today's verse: Is. 63:17a. Why, O LORD, do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts so we do not revere you? (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

Oh Lord God, King of the tribes of Jacob, God of heaven and earth, have mercy upon us O God, Your children who haven’t the sense to decipher the right from the left and aren’t able to do anything without Your counsel and the driving power that only You can provide.  We are as helpless as the little one of an eagle who can fall off the cliff and die; as it does not know yet, the power its wings have, of flight.

Oh, Lord, have mercy, for we have drunk of the cup of iniquity which the enemy of our souls pours out for us in guile and we like ignorant rabbits fall into his pits which take us away from the lovely land of Your inhabitation.  Our feet have slipped O Lord and our inner strong urges to do wrong have landed us in a situation of great discomfort for it seems to us that You have left us on our own to wander away from You; and the more we move from You in our ‘gullibility’ thinking our erroneous ways will lead us to illumination, the more we sink into the muddle of darkness and filth.  It is certainly not like us Lord to move away from You, but our weak minds sway to the sinful rhythms of this world and fall.

Oh Lord God of righteousness and purity, why have You hardened our hearts to leading us away from fear of You O God?  Yeah, we agree we have lost fear of reverence for You and while we want to give no excuses as to why this has happened, we still pray to You so You will instill in our hearts the desire to revere and honor You all the days of our lives and the lives of our children and their children through all generations.  In doing so Lord, we know that when the time is nigh for us to come to You, we will have the angelic blast of welcome into Your kingdom, the One in which we strived to live, even while on earth.