God of my heart –
There was a time when You were grieved that You had made man on the earth, and Your heart was filled with pain.
I love Your heart. Your heart is perfect, and yet I know at times I fill Your heart with pain. I turn my eyes away from Jesus, and I look at the pleasures of this world … and I am enticed … and I hurt You … and I hurt me … and I hurt … and Your perfect heart hurts because of me.
I don’t want to hurt You, Lord. You never hurt me.
Lead me gently back to You. Discipline me, Lord. Correct me, but please correct me in Your mercy … and not in Your wrath … for I would be destroyed.
I am not destroyed because of Your steadfast love.
I have sinned against You and You only, and I am ashamed. Refine me, Father. Make me holy so that Your heart will delight in me the way my heart delights in You.
I love You, and I am praying through Your perfect Son, Jesus. Amen.
~s
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