I Just Don't Get It -- My sin and HIS Unfailing Love

I Just Don't Get It -- My Sin and His Unfailing Love

"For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering." Psalm 51:16

I really don't get it -- I am thick-headed. He wants me to see MY sin. But He wants me to understand His unfailing love. You need to purchase this book if you purchase no other one that I have recommended to you. It is a must-read, must-keep, must read over and over again.

Listen to this powerful description of my sin and HIS unfailing love:

I wish I would live with YOU in view;

Eyes to YOUR glory

Ears for YOUR wisdom

Heart for YOUR grace.

But I live with ME in view.

Eyes to MY kingdom

Ears for MY opinion

Heart captured for MY will.

I know I was made for YOU,

I know that Hope

Meaning

Purpose

Identity

My agenda for every day,

is to be found in YOU!

But I want MY OWN kingdom

I love MY OWN glory

I define MY OWN meaning

I delight in MY control.

I know YOU are not fooled

by my burnt offerings.

There's a war that never ends;

The battleground is MY heart.

It's a moral skirmish

Between what YOU have ordained

and what I want!

So I don't find pleasure in YOUR glory,

I don't delight in YOUR law.

But my heart doesn't rest;

I KNOW there is a better way.

I know YOU are God

and I am not.

MY sin is more than

Bad behavior

A bad choice

Wrong words.

MY sin is a violation of the relationship

that I was meant to have with YOU.

MY sin is an act

Where I replace YOU

With something I love more.

Every wrong that I do

reflects

a lack of love for YOU,

Reflects

a love of SELF.

Help ME

to see

to acknowledge

to weep

And say,

"Against YOU, YOU only have I sinned

And done what is evil in YOUR sight."

And then help me to rest

In YOUR mercy

In YOUR tender mercy

In YOUR faithful love,

Even as the war goes on! -- From WHITER THAN SNOW -- Meditations on Mercy and Grace by Paul David Tripp (Crossway)

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God's WORD for YOU: Proverbs 19-21; 2 Corinthians 7

Great Quote: Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it. Peter Marshall