I Am Humbled

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 YAH, return me to the joy of salvation i've felt and knew before.  i know i already have salvation and eternal life.  It's on me to recollect that moment kneeling in the basement while Billy Graham called everybody to come on television.  It was early to mid-70s.  i had tears of joy and it was an emotional moment.  Help me to go beyond mere emotions now.  Thank You for the wisdom to confess my sins--past, present, and future which You know about already.  Had the soldier hesitated, Jesus Himself would have swung the mallet.  He knew that the purpose of the nail was to place my sins where they could be hidden by His sacrifice and covered by His blood. The same hand that stilled the seas stills my guilt.  The same hand that cleansed the Temple cleanses my heart.


As the hands of Jesus opened for the nails, the doors of heaven opened for me.  i am humbled.  i could never be so proud of what i have that i miss what i need to hear and feel from the Holy Spirit in me.  And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, And you always having all sufficiency in all things may have an abundance for every good work. - [2 Corinthians 9:8]  In the end all my bad choices are redeemed by a solitary good one.  May i always have the wisdom to confess to You my sins--all serious enough for Christ to have died for them.  i am humbled.

We are living in the Age of Unreason disguised as being rational!  i should set myself up for victory.  Not failure, which i've done so many times in the past and even in the most recent past.  He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed. - [Proverbs 13:20]

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