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Grace > Sin

Sprinkle me  with water and I will be pure; wash me and I will be whiter than snow.

Psalm 51:7

It's amazing David has the gall to pray this after he murdered a guy after committing adultery with his wife. You'd think "true" repentance would be more along the lines of "God, I'm so horrible and terrible and will never ever be able to measure up to you. God, I deserve to die. God, I am such a loser. God, I want to try and do the right thing, but oh, I'm such a sinner." Instead, David asks God to simply say the word, sprinkle him with water, and that he'd then be pure and whiter than snow! Either he's underestimating and downplaying his own sin (unlikely, given verse 4)...or perhaps, he truly understands the depth and the radical nature of the love and grace of God, and is humbly accepting both.
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Convicted

We have a short term mission team visiting us this week. Yesterday on the way back from the airport, the pastor of the team asked me about a guy he had met when he had come on an earlier mission trip a couple of years ago. He asked whether this guy was still coming to some of our events, whether he was spiritually open, etc. I told him that yes, he was, in fact that he has been coming more and more often lately and seems more and more interested.

Then the pastor said, "That's awesome - you know, I've been praying for him every single day for the past year, actually, even a little longer than a year. In fact, my kids and I pray for him together every evening."

Think about that for a second. Every. Single. Day.

This was roughly 24 hours ago, but ever since then it's been rattling my mind. I feel so convicted and so ashamed, because I now know that a guy from a different church than mine with a very busy life and with so many problems of his own has put far more time and energy into praying for the church I go to in the past year than I have.

And to be honest, I don't know what else to write at this point. I know something has got to change, I already knew my prayer life was abysmal, but this experience was basically God looking me straight in the face, and suddenly holding up a mirror right in front of me without even saying "Brace yourself." - it completely caught me off guard, and I'm kind of still in the middle of feeling sick at my own mirror image.

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