Just thoughts

I was reading Psalms 42 the other night and something hit me.  So often, I do not thirst for God in the way the Psalmist writes.  It is wonderful and horrible when the Spirit stabs me through the heart.

I don’t pray often enough that YOU will be pleased.  I seek to convert, but don’t realize that it is only the first step and that we can’t take any of the other steps without you, Lord.

I take Your blessings and give thanks, I don’t pass them on.  I do not share enough for “the least of these.”  I try to change the world through my own hands.  By doing that I actually turn away from my Lord.  I worship, but do not allow His glory to show through me.  I do not forgive.  I do not love all  the world.  I make a pretense of love.

But even with my faults, my transgressions and my shortcomings my Lord loves me.  He forgives in the way only a parent will.  And I know that I can only overcome my human frailties through His power.