1. Lord, shake us to
remove everything we've built on the sand. Judge us and remove all
evil. But with mercy to draw love from our brokenness, and in the
kindness of your heart to restore us to righteousness. Lord, judge us
with mercy. It is a wonderful thing. It's so good.
2. Cause us to recognize sin and refuse
it's deceptive temptation. Show us that you know our secret worst,
and you see our secret best. In the grace of Jesus's blood covering
us, you call us washed and whole and perfect. Because we died to sin
in Jesus, we also live in resurrection power over sin. That means
nothing separates us from knowing you and interacting with you!
3. Sharpen our consciences so we are
grieved by the vain things we allow. May our relationship be so
precious, we are unwilling to permit any questionable thing that
would offend you.
4. Judge us in the company we choose to
keep: unhealthy friendships, hateful thoughts, things that spoil us
for the real satisfaction in you, movies and music and books with
content we would never expose ourselves to in real life, and things
that waste our time and leave us empty.
5. Judge our hypocrisy and
double-standards. Make us aware of them.
6. You see the heart set on being
faithful to you. You help them. You let them be in your presence and
you take them along to be involved.
7. Remove our false confidence. Show us
the lies we've believed out of fear and shame and replace them with
truth which makes us stable.
8. Don't let evil mature. Destroy it in
us now so the good things grow strong. Judge us early on. In your
mercy, don't let us hurt ourselves and others.
Psalm 101
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