Restore: 1 John: Prayers and Poetry

                Restore 

                So broken, bewildered

                instinctively hide truth

                in words and heart hiding

                sins both active and silent.

                Sins that can be dissolved

                by His grace and mercy

                buried by His righteousness.

                Seek first His forgiveness

                then walk in faith

                that He will cleanse and guide

                sustaining honesty through trust.

Psalm 27:6: "And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me; And I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord."

                

Reflection: Cleanse: 1 John: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions

    1. In what ways do you lie to yourself, to others, and to the Lord? 

    2. What trigger cause you to deceive or to hide from yourself?

    3. When has confession, first to the Lord, enabled you to restore truth?

Share: What sin's cleansing has He given you that you can show others His faithful righteousness? 

Cleanse: 1 John: Prayers and Poetry

Reading:1st John 1:8-10: " If we say we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have no sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us."

Cleanse

So simply, too easily, can lies enter within ourselves and also from others. So simply, too easily, do we choose to accept them as authentic, or a choice, or reality.

Yet in Your forgiveness and healing You show us the real truth, and show the way back by Your mercy.

Please keep us listening for Your voice when we try to hide our sins from You when we recognize our choices.

We ask to walk only in Your truth with honesty and not be resistant when Your cleanse is offered.

May we see clearly into our internal attitudes and outward actions to recognize and resist the sins that can lure us.

Your thoughts,