Praise be to You, My Eternal King, for out of Your love flows all manner of things essential to my well-being. I’m encouraged in knowing that You are … a fair judge … generous in all Your ways … and, with the power to care for the needs of Your people. There is nothing in this world that can diminish Your awesomeness and glory. Through Your wondrous working power … when my life ends, it is really only beginning. When I am weak, You are my strength. And, despite Your best efforts to warn me, when I go off on my own and fail, You are able to turn my failures into something good. The mysteries of Your unending love, patience and caring make me treasure my relationship with You all the more. As I live my life, it is filled with many paradoxes: Good and evil … plenty and lack … ease and hardship … light and darkness … understanding and confusion … yet You are the glue that holds me together in whatever circumstances I find myself. Help me never become content with where I am and, instead, always strive to take up my cross and follow You.
My life is but a drop of water in the ocean of time … a grain of sand on a beach … a single star in the vastness of the heavens … yet You look down on me each day to see that my needs are met. You are ever patient with my failings and Your mercies are endless. You know me, understand my moods, forgive my transgressions and offer me a hand when I need one. When I resist Your urging to forgive … You remain open to forgiving me. When I withhold kindness … You remain ready to pour out Yours. When I neglect my responsibilities … You admonish me through the working of the Holy Spirit. You are constantly opening my eyes to the wisdom contained in Your words so that I am able to see the right path to follow. I trust that Your love toward me will grow as I accept Your guidance and diligently strive to live Your way. Accelerate the growth of faith and love in my heart so that I can please You with my service. Help me grasp the fact that by standing with You and Your teachings I will be able to overcome the obstacles placed in my life.
O God of charity and wisdom, show me how to emulate Your ways. Help me think and speak with a pure heart and act in accordance with Your command to love my neighbor and You as well. Bless me with Your kindness so that I might become a minister of kindness. Pour out Your mercy on me so that I might dispense it freely to others. Show me forgiveness so that I might give it to those who hurt me. Fill me with Your peace so that I can calm the storms in the lives of others. Teach me Your humility so that I might become a servant of all. Share with me the riches of Your Kingdom so that I might liberally give them away like You. You are an awesome God who has much to teach me. Everything I see and know about You tells me that there is no one like You. And it’s in Jesus’ name I pray. AMEN!!
Psalm 86:8 Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord; no deeds can compare with Yours.