Confession 3.0

Exodus by Marc Chagall

If I have failed You so be it. God forgive me for my lack of patience. My intolerance of others sin. My propensity to please others often avoiding confrontation. Forgive me for speaking when I should have listened. For disregarding authority, my desire to do things my way, and my tendency not to bend towards a direction I find disagreeable. Forgive me for being self-righteous, self-promoting, and desiring the praise of others for accomplishments.

Be merciful and gracious to me. Please show me the good things which have come from my life and do not let me wallow in failures. Let not the pains and arrows of others destroy me. Protect me as I walk the path before me.

By God's grace I desire to be honest and clear about failure and success. I have failed in certain relationships with others. My brand of friendship found no home in their hearts. I sometimes recount the moments when my heart turned from them. I will not record them here. In many ways its not important anymore to do so.

I hope that they attain what they strive  for. I hope good people surround them. I simply know that I must walk a different path. I cannot go there for I would not survive the journey.

Spirit am I grieving You? I'm sorry. Have Your way with my heart. Expose me. Lay my sin ever present before my eyes and excise this death in me! Let not sin reign in my body a moment longer! Heal the wound: make whole both the offender and the offended. God release me that I may heal. Free me that I may grow. Guide me that I might fulfill that which is important. I know Your will for Your children is for us to do more of what gives us life (John 10:10) and to turn away from the those things that drain life from us, debilitating us. I praise You for today I am free to choose life! (Deuteronomy 30:19-20)