I Put All My Trust in You, Abba

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 Here at the Gaslight Motel i shall constantly meet the deceit.  Yet i'm, with God's help, authorized to keep Jezebel's hands off any situation.  Even me.  i can be still.  i can keep my hands off the situation and have God push Jezebel on down the hallway.  He can trample on her like a serpent and scorpion, for she has the tongue of a serpent; the sting of a scorpion.  Sting this!  While i'm holding the Bible in my hand.  Anger.  Hatred.  i've hated my brother for a decade.  i know there's a long list of coworkers at whom i've been angry--even a few i've hated--the same with housemates--that's been my most serious transgressions during the past 15 years, and You haven't given me a thorn like Paul had.  You, my Heavenly Father, still love and adore me and keep me the apple of Your eye, and i rejoice in You finding me again, taking away the chains of smoking and being the best cardiologist i'll ever have on this earth.  Through Jesus Christ, i put all my faith and trust in You, Abba. 

In Jesus's name i have found joy in the unbridled and unharnessed and the clump, clump, clump, and the thump, thump, thump of the Gaslight Motel.  i read some amazing references--books from the library--that always give me verses to check out and i eat them right after writing them down; and as i'm writing this--wait for it! --i'm checking out Jeremiah 15:16:  Your words were found, and I ate them, And our word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. --[Ephesians 1:3]

God, i will do whatever You say without reservation or hesitation.  i give the sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving.  i have misused the talents You have given me in the past.  Please help me, forgive me, give me the wisdom to never ever do that again.

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