Jesus, Lover of my soul,
I bow my heart before you. When I kneel in your presence there's no other option but to be honest with you. You've seen all the things I've done. You've seen me when I pretend to be better than I really am - and that's pretty embarrassing, to think of you being right there with me while I fake it. And you've seen me when I truly meant well, I really tried, but I got off track and wound up doing something stupid, like repeating the same, old mistake....again.
And yet you love me. You keep me. Whether I do good or bad, You keep hanging on to me.
I know it's because you love perfectly, without any requirement from me. Unconditionally.
And just right now, it occurred to me to wonder, is it also because you can see my future, completed self? Do you hold before you the image of each of your children as we will be when we are no longer divided between your kingdom and this earthly one?
O how I long to see that! To see what you see when you look with eyes of love at your children. Open my eyes, Lord. And my heart. AMEN.
For as he thinks within himself, so he is...
Proverbs 23:7
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