Monday Feb 23

Lord, I love grace for me but struggle to extend it to others. I celebrate your patience with my sin but demand judgment for theirs. I want mercy when I fail but accountability when they do. I'm the elder brother, offended that you welcome sinners who don't deserve it - forgetting I didn't

You can ask Me to create a clean heart in you - and I will. I'm not limited by your past, not discouraged by your failures, not frustrated by how many times you've tried and failed. I can create something completely new in you. Let Me do the creating; you do the asking.

David wrote Psalm 51 after Nathan confronted him about his adultery with Bathsheba and murder of Uriah. "I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight" (Psalm 51:3-4). This seems strange - didn't he